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0 pointsexasperaited7mo ago0 comments

Yes. But no geek should be getting a Cricut when the Silhouette machines exist and are not so locked down and cloud encumbered.

ETA: I guess a true maths geek nerd artist would probably want something more modular and larger anyway, but the Silhouette machines are varied, interesting, support a pretty well documented protocol (GPGL, a variant of/alternative to HPGL I think) and are supported in Inkscape and Python.

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mankyd7mo ago

Seconded. My Silhouette is great. I even emailed them and received a copy of the GPGL docs one time. It wasn't full on support, but they were willing to give me a start.

The first thing I programmed was having it draw a hilbert curve and it worked great!

exasperaitedOP7mo ago

Ooh, did you do a blog article about it perhaps? I think I read it, if so.

mankyd7mo ago

It's 14 years old at this point, but here you go: https://www.ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-cour...

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0 pointsexasperaited7mo ago0 comments

Yes. But no geek should be getting a Cricut when the Silhouette machines exist and are not so locked down and cloud encumbered.

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mankyd7mo ago

Seconded. My Silhouette is great. I even emailed them and received a copy of the GPGL docs one time. It wasn't full on support, but they were willing to give me a start.

The first thing I programmed was having it draw a hilbert curve and it worked great!

exasperaitedOP7mo ago

Ooh, did you do a blog article about it perhaps? I think I read it, if so.

mankyd7mo ago

It's 14 years old at this point, but here you go: https://www.ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-cour...

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