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I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert

Stuff Made Here

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

11M views3 years ago3 recommendations

HardwareAI and machine learningEmbedded systemsNeural networks and deep learning

Stuff Made Here builds a handwriting robot using recurrent neural networks and tests its output against a handwriting expert.

Create a FREE Onshape account at: Onshape.pro/StuffMadeHere Download the part files for this project: tinyurl.com/plotterparts If you want to help support these projects: patreon.com/stuffmadehere Special thanks to Ron Morris for taking the time to analyze a bunch of writing samples that I sent him. I got in touch with him after getting his textbook to learn more about the subject: amazon.com/dp/0124096026 This robot uses a tormach ZA6 to tend the writing robot: tormach.com/machines/robots.html Heres the 3D printers we designed in onshape: hubs.ly/Q01RNGdr0 Machine learning Resources: Generating Sequences with Recurrent Neural Networks: arxiv.org/abs/1308.0850 Code for Handwriting Synthesis with RNNs: github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis If you want to learn more about machine learning, this is a good overview that gets into the math behind them: youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000… Other stuff: LSTM cell image By Guillaume Chevalier - File:The_LSTM_Cell.svg, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109362147

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What people say. Recommended as an entertaining and educational engineering project showing the trials of building a handwriting synthesis robot.

sandreason Hacker News • Recommends

On “Coding My Handwriting”

There is a very cool youtube video with something similar from Stuff Made Here: link to this video Was very fun to watch and he also explains the trials and errors, he did. There is also a link to a very interesting repository of handwriting synthesis: link

mdorazioon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Making a font of my handwriting”

For those who were hoping for the physical version of this, I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic: link to this video

xz18ron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Writing Postcards with a 3D Printer”

Not a 3D printer but really cool video by Stuff Made Here explaining how he tried to make 'realistic' handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter: link to this video

DaSHackaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges”

This unironically may be what needs to be done. A video by Stuff Made Here covered what is essentially one such machine 0. That specific machine is meant for generating handwritten notes, but I imagine it could likely work for general purpose documents too with some tweaks. 0 link to this video