In the beginning of 2019 I started working on a platform and community website for drawing robot enthusiasts. I called it Drawingbots.net and have built the website from scratch. This is the first community website for plotter and drawing robot owners and majority of the website is user-driven. Here’s the process I followed to create this platform:

• Create a Discord forum and get potential users involved
• Collect inspiration of machine-themed websites and create moodboards
• Design the wireframes and high-fidelity prototype in Sketch
• Create a CSS theme for the website, implementing the design into HTML / CSS template
• Create Content Management System for all parts of the site (using PHP and Laravel framework)

The website will collect the following information for drawing robot enthusiasts:

• Tools / supplies for the machines
• Software and generators for making graphics
• Wiki / knowledge sharing
• Plotter – themed events and community highlights
• Curated PlotterTwitter content

Check out the site

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