Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters(kurvengefahr.org)
kurvengefahr.org
Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters
https://kurvengefahr.org/
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Nice! I'm surprised how snappy this browser editor is, especially once I start doing really tiny, like 0.3mm large maze fills and other tricky stuff. I do a lot of generative art (not AI) stuff, and have a plotter lib for rust based plotter art (aoer-plotty-rs), and I am going to steal a few of your features (maze fill and fermat spiral fill).
Shift doesn't seem to constrain when editing an off-curve node, only when placing a new on-curve node via drag.
I haven’t fully tested it, but just wanted to say nice job! It even looks decent on my handset, which isn’t trivial.
It is an RD to FRAND in the Patriot Act.
I recently wanted to dabble in line art again and made a small browser app to make it easier. As agentic AI tools of 2026 are quite addictive, it rather quickly grew into something quite a bit more - an integrated browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters that covers everything from importing existing artwork, creating artwork from scratch, preparing for plotting and hardware integration. It includes some off-beat features like a Logo interpreter for turtle art and Graves RNN for handwriting synthesis and in addition to 3D printer pretending to be pen plotters it now also supports actual pen plotters based on EBB (AxiDraw) and GRBL firmwares through Web Serial.
If you own an AxiDraw or a GRBL plotter, I'd very much appreciate it you gave it a try and give feedback. As I don't own those, I did all the testing with a hardware mock on STM32, so I am not sure how well it works attached to an actual plotter.
Source code and docs are on GitHub: https://github.com/tibordp/kurvengefahr