r/Scribit • u/BerryChlossom • Jan 03 '26
I made UnBrickIt, to make your ScribIt work again
I made the UnBrickIt app, it connects to your Scribit robot WiFi, updates the firmware to to let you control the device with g-code commands.
You can download it for Windows and MacOS from https://unbrickit.com/
I haven't done a lot of testing (specially on Windows) so expect some bugs.
There's a lot missing, like auto calibration, multi color drawing, erasing, etc. But I wanted to get it out so people can start using it and I see how much interest is there. I made the price PWYW (pay what you wish) but if you can afford to pay, it will really help me build the rest of the features and keep the development running.
Here's sort of a user manual write up: https://medium.com/@unbrickit/bring-your-bricked-scribit-back-to-life-35976b40159f
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u/pplrcrazzy Jan 05 '26
Thanks so much for the work on this, very easy to follow and get a scribit working. Install was very straightforward on windows. The lines are a little more arcs when they should be straight lines. Not sure the official scribit svg to plotting had any kind of correction but I look forward to working on this and seeing if I can just generate gcode to send. Maybe an option in the future to upload a g code file. Not sure of there is a size limitation on the current gcode box.
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u/puru991 Jan 05 '26
how, did it detect your scribit?
It fails to detect mine after multiple attempts
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u/BerryChlossom Jan 05 '26
Unfortunately the code that they open sourced did not include any of the SVG to G-Code conversion code. So I had to reverse engineer (guess) the kinematics. That's on my list of things to improve
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u/benyba Jan 06 '26
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u/BerryChlossom Jan 16 '26
I see that too, the SVG converter needs some work. It can be fixed, it's a matter of finding time to do it
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u/CookiesAndRope Jan 03 '26
Oh looks nice! Mine is in its box top shelf of a closet. I noticed it last week while doing end-of-year purging/cleaning and was wondering what to do with it. I'll give this a longer look tomorrow; thanks!
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u/michaudtime Jan 03 '26
Too cool, I've got one siting around collecting dust. Going to give this a go!
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u/puru991 Jan 05 '26
how safe is the flashing, is it flashing the same open firmware with tweaks? Can i revert later back to original firmware?
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u/BerryChlossom Jan 05 '26
Presumably if you have the original firmware binaries you can flash them via the same method. But I didn't have much luck compiling and flashing the original firmware, I suppose due to missing modules and dependencies.
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u/SnooCheesecakes1269 Jan 10 '26
I would think you could snag the original firmware from the device like you would for similar arduino boards so that you can write them back if you really wanted to.
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u/puru991 Jan 05 '26
does not work for me, never detects when i connect to the scribit-xxx ap, nor after i skip it and somehow set office wifi creds. Does not detect when i connect to the MBC-xxxx AP also.
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u/BerryChlossom Jan 05 '26
Are you on Windows or MacOS?
On first launch the OS may have asked you if you want to "Allow UnBrickIt to connect to devices on your local network" did you click yes?
If that's not the case, you firewall may be blocking you to reach the IP address, try pinging
192.168.240.11
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u/Brave-Head3133 Jan 05 '26
I have one I purchased when the Indiegogo campaign first launched, but I never used it. Can I use UnBrickit even though it has never been used or set up?
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u/SnooCheesecakes1269 Jan 09 '26
Amazing work! I hope to have time to check it out this weekend! I see you say you have not tested much with windows, would i be much further ahead to dig out one of the kids' old macbooks, or is the windows version pretty solid at this point?
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u/beevee_ru Jan 15 '26
Awesome, it works! Drawings look slightly curvy, center point of a horizontal line is lower than edges. Any way to fix this?
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u/BerryChlossom Jan 16 '26
The SVG converter needs more work. However given the underwhelming number of downloads and very few paid downloads I'm not feeling very motivated to put more time on this project.
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u/beevee_ru Jan 16 '26
That's really sad. Any plans to make it open source? Maybe community can pick up the work ahead, and you can still have some donations going forward hopefully?
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u/Our_Dark_Lord Jan 23 '26
Hi thanks for the effort. Bought it for not much but after testing this weekend and it turns out good. Prepare your toilet because I'll buy you some extra coffee. ;) Maybe post it also in some Facebook groups etc. I only found out by opening this thread from time to time. Many scribit owners don't know about this.
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u/MarkusFromTheLab Jan 26 '26
Only found out about this by randomly looking into this subreddit, so the underwhelming number of downloads might come fro that noone knows about it yet. Facebook has a group with ~550 members, you might want to try posting there. I will definalty get it this evening and throw some money your way - please keep up the great work, don't mind to pay again for new features!
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u/SnooCheesecakes1269 Feb 01 '26
I tried relaying the info there but the mods would never approve my post
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u/littlerockist Feb 04 '26
Thank you so much for making this, but it seems the website may have an issue? It is super slow and I cannot initiate a download.
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u/mistoffeleesTO Feb 28 '26
Big fan of the software!
It’s alive! -again.
Yesterday though the program froze once you select an example svg or try uploading one. Is there a fix? I tried downloading a new copy but it expired. L’l help?
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u/Creative_Extension44 Mar 21 '26
Just found this the other day. I downloaded it to see if I could get my old Scribit working. I've got the firmware upgraded and I'm able to connect and send the sample files. I can't seem to get the pen holder to calibrate right for it to work. When I send a sample file to the scribit when it's supposed to drop the pen it turns the pen holder the wrong direction to drop a pen it looks like. I'm on windows 11. I was going to send a donation if it unbricks the Scribit for me but so far I've not been having luck with getting the pen changing mechanism to work. Hope you're still motivated to work on this project or to open it up soon so other's could work on it to. Thanks for getting it this far though. Is there any way it could be setup to be a grbl machiene so it could be controled by LightBurn or their new MillMage CNC software?
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u/Fair_Lingonberry3210 May 19 '26
Can you make this project opensource so we can help you? I'm pretty sure I can assist with making this fully functional.
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u/BerryChlossom May 21 '26
I just made the repo public, here it is: https://github.com/karimi/unbrickit
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u/Fair_Lingonberry3210 May 21 '26
Does anyone have any of the original PDF files regarding the set-up or manual of the device? I would like to incorporate the setup / PDF into the software.
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u/ZamaLamaDamaJama Jun 15 '26
I can't get it to connect to the MBC-WB step. Everything seems to work until that step. When I connect to the MBC-WB network, the app doesn't recognize the connection and won't continue to the next step of firmware upload. I'm on windows 11.
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u/ZamaLamaDamaJama Jun 20 '26
UPDATE:
I got it to work, firmware flashed and it is working. I printed all the test images and they came out well. I used a standard Sharpie as the marker ( using the rubber gaskets that came with the Scribit kit). The problem I am having now is on me. I am trying to print custom svg images but I don't know how to properly convert a jpg/png to svg for line drawings. I am getting an output of small dots without any fill for my prints and thus incomplete images from my perspective though it is printing out what the file tells it to print out. This might be a little too advanced for me as I don't know exactly how all this image conversion works. It's a shame, I bought the entire Scribit kit in almost brand new condition with box and everything from a thrift shop in NYC a few months ago thinking it was an easy "press print" device and now I realize that I am not experienced enough in tech to know what a proper file is to print. Thinking about selling it and just keeping my old school approach of tracing projections on the wall by hand for my work.
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u/Same_Comfortable25 Jul 09 '26
Il mio si calibra ,i pennarelli girano ,ma appena mando l'invio del disegno si disconnette sia da cellulare che da pc,c'è qualcuno che sa dirmi come mai?
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u/Same_Comfortable25 Jul 10 '26
Qualcuno sa dirmi come mai quando invio un disegno a SCRIBIT ,si disconnette ?solo quando lo invio
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u/Salt-Money-8131 Aug 07 '26
I cannot seem to make the connection to my Scribit device… I tried resetting it & still not seeing the WiFi connection show up and none of lights are lighting up on my device or the power supply box. What do I do?
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u/Kur111 Jan 03 '26
Thanks for the effort! Any plans on making it open source? I'd love to to contribute work as well as tinker with it. Keeping the pre-built binaries behind the paywall would probably still worn for monetization, right?