Textile Drawing Machine is a drawing machine thought specifically to draw on textile. Unlike other CNC machine it's dimensions follow the standard textile dimensions (1500mm) and it's on wheels to allow to draw on an unlimited area.
TDM has been developed for the project Digital Wax Print, a self initiated research project, carried out by The Future Continuous, a collabration between Olivia De Gouveia and Eugenia Morpurgo.
The machine is a custom build inspired by different projects, like this one [here](https://openbuilds.com/threads/cnc-sand-and-spraycalk-drawmaschine.8927/#post-52036)
The machine is controlled using G-code. To send the G-code instrucions to the machine several software can be used. One very suitable option is to use Pronterface [here] (http://www.pronterface.com/).
To generate the G-code instructions for the machine, the python software contours can be used. It takes a png as input and ouput the corresponding G-code. It can be found under the contour directory of this repository. See instructions there.
To streamline the all process of generating the code, a frontend can be launched. It offers a web page with some basic G-code instructions that can be used to calibrate the machine and an interface where it is possible to upload the png file and convert them to G-code.
Textile Drawing Machine has been designed by Eugenia Morpurgo (mechanics and electronics), [Florent Noel](https://github.com/heb-dtc) (software), with the help of Sami Sabik and [Come Turrata](https://github.com/cometu).
