Greetings Arduino community from a not-yet-beginner,
I'm curious if a pen pottter type device I need is feasible to be built with Arduino. (Background in case it is informative: I prepare sheet music for performance by professional orchestras. A large portion of my work consists of copying pencil markings by hand from one master part into as many as six other identical parts. By hand it sometimes takes as much as an hour per part--with as many as seventy-five parts needed per concert. That's trouble if there are two concerts per week... The markings must be in pencil because they are often changed in rehearsal. Otherwise I'd just photocopy new parts from an original that includes the pencil markings! Anyway it's not just time, it's hand strain, and I need my hands to be a musician when I'm not copying markings.)
I need a XY pen plotter which draws with a pencil.
I need to program its output by manually guiding the pencil. ALTERNATELY, and I assume this would be more simple, I could program the output by manually indicating locations for specific pre-programmed symbols.
I need a minimum 200 ppi resolution with ±1/32" accuracy. (because the output has to line up with what's already printed on a page.)
I need to be able to save multiple output images in sequence to easily repeat later in or out of order.
I need a way to ensure the output will be properly aligned with the pre-printed page.
Since the pre-printed image may be rotated a little I'd like to be able to indicate the two corners on the original so the pen plotter can rotate its output accordingly.
I want a working area of 20"w x 13"h.
That probably sums up the basics and the couple more complicated wishes. Doable?
Thanks all,
Drew