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
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