drawit

A node.js app to take an image and render it as a line drawing

macOS Install

From the terminal, do the following:

1. Install homebrew: https://brew.sh/
2. Install deps: brew install node potrace imagemagick
3. Clone the repo: git clone [email protected]:allhandsactive/drawit.git and switch to the directory: cd drawit
4. Install the node deps: npm install
5. Install the python deps: pip3 install lxml
6. Start the server: npm start
7. Go to http://localhost:3000 to begin

TODO

• Make things look a bit nicer
• Images from a URL?
• Generate gcode?
• Pull in axidraw via a submodule
• Allow hatch width to be configurable

Dependencies

• imagemagick 7
• potrace
• Cartoon script for imagemagick (modified and distributed in bin)
• Python 3
• eggbot_hatch.py (and deps) included in bin
• Python lxml (installed from pip, or as a system package)
• Compile the gcode translator: cargo b --release

systemd unit

Symlink or copy drawit.service to /lib/systemd/system and then enable and start. Assumes installation in /srv/drawit and a drawit user.