[paulgb]

Pen Plotting. For those unaware, pen plotters are basically tabletop robots that you can put a pen into and have it draw whatever you want. There's a friendly online community of people making art with them on twitter (search #plottertwitter) and instagram.

It's nice to have a coding-related outlet that also produces something tangible you can hold in your hand or put on a wall.

[sbf501]

These are far more satisfying than dot matrix or laser printers. I used to draw stage lighting plots with them in college in the mid-80's. So much fun to watch them work.

[ASalazarMX]

I worked in a construction company where we drawed blueprints in AutoCAD for these pen plotters. It was very soothing to see them work, but we had this pervert engineer who would caress the long brush's hairs under them and whisper sexy things. Unfortunately, that is irremediably linked in my mind to pen plotters.

[yellowapple]

I want to buy that robosexual colleague of yours a beer. Maybe he could seduce my apartment's AC into actually working in the summer?

[MonkeyClub]

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Gotcha!

[ASalazarMX]

He was an heterosexual male, he thought the brush hairs felt like female pubic hair. Despite that, he was a cool guy in other contexts.