I have been documenting the progress since the start of the project by posting updates as stories on my Instagram. You can find the story highlights here
Since the teacher caught me due to the unnatural regularity and neatness of a machine written text, I decided to record my own handwriting with Multiple versions of each character in the handwriting font (eg: "a1", "a2", "a3",) It was recorded using Inkscape's pen tool. Each letter was painstakingly converted to Gcode and All character's Gcode were combined into a file. The Gcode generation script uses this file as reference for my handwriting.
The software to generate Gcode does the following:
- Takes in all the content you want it to write and your handwriting font file as input.
- Places the text correctly in the correct line of the page.
- Move to the next line either if all content in the line is written or of the line is filled.
- Move to the next page if all the lines in the page are finished or if a page break is added
- Apply randomization to the letters for making the text look more natural
- Create the Gcode for the machine as output.
This time it worked! The lab teacher ended up signing off my lab record as the text was completely different from the machine written one he saw before. Another teacher familiar with my handwriting easily identified that It's not my handwriting. I used this font for months to write assignments and records as most of the teachers have no idea that I am writing these with a machine. They never complained.
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Oh, this is an amazing project! I definitely missed something like this in school. I generally think that homework should be banned from school. Have you considered mass-producing or selling it? I think you had a lot of orders. School assignments can be very exhausting, difficult, or boring. Right now I am using resources like https://gradesfixer.com/free-essay-examples/reasons-why-homework-should-be-banned-from-school/ which can help with tasks assigned to students. And I would certainly use your project because it is a must-have. This innovative approach is sure to gain popularity.
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