Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Raspberry Pi Controlled Cricut to cut SVG files

Raspberry Pi with 512M RAM loaded with 2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.img on a Lexar 2G Micro SD (Class unknown)


First of all I want to test it out by cutting a pie in svg format. I got this logo from wikipedia.


Here is my set up, from my laptop I use UltraVNC Viewer to remote to Raspberry PI. The executable and svg files can be downed from WinSCP. In stead of using a real blade, I am using a pen to plot a Raspberry on a blank paper:



And here is the result:






You can watch the whole procedure here: