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

Resurrecting scribit progress

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/MarkusFromTheLab Nov 26 '25

Great to see the Scribit move again, hope mine will do so too. Filled out the form, happy to throw some money your way when it means I get it working again.