I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert

Stuff Made Here · 11.5M views · 2023-05-27 · 23:39

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Overview

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.

On Hacker News

HN commenters recommend it as the physical-machine take on replicating handwriting, with plenty of explained iteration.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2024–2026

Topics

Robotics 3D printing, CNC & maker projects Mechanical & precision engineering

What people said

xz18r · 2026-06 · Recommendation
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: [VIDEO]
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mdorazio · 2025-09 · Recommendation
For those who were hoping for the physical version of this, I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic: [VIDEO]
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sandreas · 2024-05 · Recommendation
There is a very cool youtube video with something similar from Stuff Made Here: [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]
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