3 HN users recommended this demo3 months2024–2026score 3
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN commenters recommend it as the physical-machine take on replicating handwriting, with plenty of explained iteration.
Stuff Made Here builds a handwriting robot and sends its output to a handwriting expert to see whether it can pass as forgery. It walks through the engineering trials and errors along the way.
“really cool video by Stuff Made Here explaining how he tried to make 'realistic' handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter” (HN, 2026)
There is a very cool youtube video with something similar from Stuff Made Here: [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]
Builds a handwriting robot and explains trials and errors
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: [this video]
Making realistic handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter
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] [this video]
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