I lucked into a magnetic sand table damaged in shipping. As you can see, most of the sand has leaked out due to a fractured base sheet. The inspiration for what comes next comes from here;
http://www.taomc.com/art/kinetic_scu...us_series.html
Take a walk through his site, the man is an ubergeek in the best sense of the word.
The first build will be a crude gantry. No pics as the parts are currently at a machine shop getting fitted with screws.
I'll be writing some stuff in python to sketch what can defined by math. Is there a way to convert free hand sketches to gcode ? Something like mspaint-to-gcode
. Preferably open source, cross platform would be a big plus.
edit/ checking out an inkscape solution . Looks very promising.