Hello all, I am very new here. I am entering a competition in regards to drawing tools. I have an idea that I write a program that will record my mouse movements while I am working on the computer(doesn’t matter what I am doing). Those coordinates are then sent to my 3D printer and it will print these coordinates on a 2D plane (using one of those 3D printed pen holders). I would like it to do this in real time if possible. I assume I will use python for recording the mouse movements, then Gcode for the printer. Can anyone offer some advice for me on the process/codes/programs I would have to take/utilize to accomplish this task?
Good luck! How do you eat an elephant? Tiny bites at a time. Same here, break down your idea into individual bits, and hit Stackoverflow for code examples
your code will need to sit some where in the mouse processing chain so that it can capture all movements but also pass them along to the rest of the software that is running. Google will find an example but I doubt it can be done in Python, this is more of a C++ kind of device driver thing.
Ah I see. So the script will record the mouse movements in real-time and process that into the program that will translate it into gcode and send it to the printer. My research starts today, wish me luck. and of course any ideas are welcome! checking out open source C++ mouse recording tools.
