This week, we had a group project to make a machine. Our group, the MIT East Section (~15 people) decided to make a laser-art drawing machine. Comprehensive documentation of our project can be found here. Our working laser-art-drawing machine is shown below.

I worked on the “path planning” subteam, which was Guy Zyskind, Tomer Weller, Madeleine Abromowitz, Nazmus Saquib, and me. Tomer and I worked on parsing the SVG file as an XML document in Python and creating coordinates for moving along lines in the path in small chunks (which is what the laser needed). We started to do the same for the Bezier curves, which Guy, Saquib, and Madeleine then picked up and worked on the next day.

As well as on the class repository, the repo can be found here and a more up to date fork of it here.