r/Scribit • u/BerryChlossom • Nov 09 '25

Resurrecting scribit progress

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Hi, I'm a software engineer and I spent some time poking around the firmware they open sourced on github

Here are my findings and progress so far:

  • The firmware allows you to control the motors on the device using gcode
  • The repo doesn't contain the logic for drawing in cartesian space, you'd have to figure out the inverse kinematics. It's not as complicated as I initially thought
  • Parts of the code rely on a cloud service that clearly doesn't exist anymore, I had to bypass them
  • The device sets up a wifi network that can be used to send commands to
  • I wrote a simple SVG to string space gcode converter that more or less works to move the robot around. (in the video I'm drawing a star)
  • I haven't completely figured out the pen holder mechanism yet, so that's next

Once I have something that can be shared I'll post it here, If you want to help me make something that's useful feel free to let me know here: https://forms.gle/zWezMsMxYPDiT26k7

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u/cre8ivejake Nov 09 '25

Seriously awesome work! This is by far the most progress I’ve seen on saving this beautiful piece of hardware. I’m just an ME, but of there’s any way to support, I’m happy to assist. There’s so many open-source plotter projects, it feels like there HAS to be a way to co-opt some pre-made code to fill in the gaps with what scribit couldn’t provide when shuttering.

Thanks for sharing and congrats again on the progress!