For me it would have been buying the steam frame (but I am still in the waitlist). Also, I recently gotten into the 40k lore, but there is no way I can find the time and physical place to get into wargames.
For me it would have been buying the steam frame (but I am still in the waitlist). Also, I recently gotten into the 40k lore, but there is no way I can find the time and physical place to get into wargames.
I’d kind of like to get a pen plotter that can use fountain pens.
The problem is that I don’t really want to spend a lot of time callibrating and tinkering with it or deal with devices that phone home. Bantam Tools makes some, but they’re substantially more expensive than similar devices.
And I’d kind of like to have one with a pressure sensor that can automatically callibrate draw height for a given run. And an automated tool switcher with some kind of standard attachment to stick on various pens. Not really commercial, off-the-shelf stuff for that. People engineering their own DIY stuff with 3D-printed parts, yes.
And I don’t really know whether I’d use it much or if it’d just wind up gathering dust. In all honesty, I have three existing alternative options, all of which are cheaper:
Write software to generate plot, get digital output. Doesn’t have the neat look physical pens produce.
Same, but print output. Same drawback.
Generate image, print, manually trace with fountain pen using light tablet. Have done this, but it’s tedious and time-consuming, and my human hands induce imperfections.
I certainly do not need one. But dammit, I’d like to play around with one.
EDIT: Oh, and one with an automated paper feeder would be cool too, but that immediately sharply limits options and increases price.