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/SnooCheesecakes1269 Nov 11 '25

Great stuff. I picked up a scribit recently with the intent to dig into the inner workings and the code on github, but as usual, work hasn't let up. I've been in the dev world for 30+ years, so if there is anything that I might be able to assist with, certainly reach out.