The Dot-Bot is a large scale wall plotter that used counterweights to tension its GT2 belts. When setting up and dismantling the Bot, hanging the weights was always an ordeal (about 10 minutes per station), so with a 3 station setup roughly 1 hour total […]
Year: 2026
Dot-Bot Software Upgrade
The third time is a charm, they say. And apparently this also holds for software projects. I assure you that a fresh start with a clear vision is often so much more productive than trying to fit an old project into a new shape, which […]
Model Railway Booster Fault Detection
My dad usually has interesting challenges for me to solve. During my last christmas break at my parents place, my dad gave me my usual annual assignment. This time, he needed a way to intelligently power down parts of his model railway in case something […]


