Hacking the Quincy Drawing Robot (MCH2022)

This session will go over my journey to hack the Quincy drawing robot. This is a cheap 3-axis drawing robot, that uses a proprietary "closed" system. I wanted to hack this robot to draw Pokémon's for my son. I will explain how I deciphered the file formats, figured out how the robot could be controlled (which needed some very very difficult math!) and the software I made to create your own drawings. BONUS: At the end of the session you can WIN one of these Quincy Robots!!! This session will explain step by step the process I took to decode the proprietary file formats, using some simple python coding. This will give you an insight in general how you can try to decode file formats that are not documented. Besides understanding the files, the math behind controlling this robot turned out to be very complicated. I will explain the difficulty and if you are a Math Nerd you can see if you could solve this difficult challenge. Finally I will show the software I made to create your own drawing files. about this event: https://program.mch2022.org/mch2022/talk/787GY3/