
Control Board
ymfpfp/blot
Create programmatic art in our web-based editor and submit it to the gallery and we'll send you a CNC machine which can make that art. Blot is a "You Ship, We Ship" project from Hack Club (like Sprig).

Create programmatic art in our web-based editor and submit it to the gallery and we'll send you a CNC machine which can make that art. Blot is a "You Ship, We Ship" project from Hack Club (like Sprig).
CYPD-3177 Breakout is an open-source printed circuit board by ymfpfp, from the ymfpfp/blot repository on GitHub, published under the MIT licence. It is a 2-layer board of 21.3 × 31.5 mm with 25 parts on 27 nets, routed with 151 tracks and 20 vias.
It is built around the DMP3013SFV. Its parts include 9 capacitors, 8 resistors, 3 connectors, 2 diodes and 2 transistors. It belongs with the interfaces and adapters boards of this library.
💻 Online Editor: Make art | 👀 Gallery | 🕸 Landing Page
Create programmatic art in our web-based editor and submit it to the gallery and we'll send you a CNC machine which can make that art. Blot is a "You Ship, We Ship" project from Hack Club (like Sprig).
A piece of art made for Blot can be the first program you ever write, but it can also be a challenge for a master programmer. Check out some of the art made already in our gallery. Every piece of are you see is actually a program. Many of them create unique pieces everytime the art is run. So you may be looking at an artwork which has never been seen before, even by the creator.
A custom CNC drawing machine designed from scratch to introduce you to digital fabrication. It's made of 6 unique 3D printed parts with a custom control board and easy to understand firmware, which can be interfaced with through JavaScript in the browser. Blot is designed in OnShape. Check out the 3D model of the project. You can find the bill of materials here if you'd like to 3D print your Blot. The parts are here. The entire build costs about $150 dollars. If you're a teen we will give you all the parts for a PR with an art piece you coded yourself.
A web based editor for programmatic art that we designed specifically for pen plotting with a custom geometry library. We practiced programmatic pen plotting with some amazing artists. There is so much to learn and explore on the programming and the aesthetic side.
Check out the examples in the gallery and then follow along with some of our guides.
The guides are designed to work like visual coding puzzles, which incrementally bring you through building generative art pieces.
The submission rules to get a Blot for a PR are here. You must be a teenager (or younger to qualify) but anyone can make art and make a PR. Also...
Every part of Blot is freely available for you to investigate and discover. That includes the editor, the hardware design, the electronics, and even the finances around the project. We think people deserve tools they can take ownership of. That's why we give away the source for free.
Our projects at Hack Club have hundreds of teenage contributors from all over the world, if you want to learn how to program we invite you to jump in and start building tools used by thousands.
You're also welcome to participate and use our tools if you aren't a teen (like making art or building your own blot). But our online community is for teens only.
Join the #blot channel on the Hack Club Slack.
The Blot editor is made with astro. To run the project locally.
You'll need:
After installing those, clone the repo.
git clone https://github.com/hackclub/blot/
cd blot/astro
yarn installTo run the development server.
yarn devThe Hack Club Blot is open source and licensed under the MIT License. Fork, remix, and make it your own! Pull requests and other contributions greatly appreciated.
| Qty | Value | Footprint | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1uF | Capacitor_SMD:C_0603_1608Metric_Pad1.08x0.95mm_HandSolder | C4, C5, C6, C9 |
| 3 | 1K | Resistor_SMD:R_0603_1608Metric_Pad0.98x0.95mm_HandSolder | R2, R4, R6 |
| 2 | 0.1uF | Capacitor_SMD:C_0603_1608Metric_Pad1.08x0.95mm_HandSolder | C7, C8 |
| 2 | 390pF | Capacitor_SMD:C_0603_1608Metric_Pad1.08x0.95mm_HandSolder | C1, C2 |
| 2 | 5.1K | Resistor_SMD:R_0603_1608Metric_Pad0.98x0.95mm_HandSolder | R1, R3 |
| 2 | Conn_01x12 | Connector_PinHeader_2.54mm:PinHeader_1x12_P2.54mm_Vertical | J2, J4 |
| 2 | DMP3013SFV | Package_SON:Diodes_PowerDI3333-8 | Q1, Q2 |
| 1 | 10K | Resistor_SMD:R_0603_1608Metric_Pad0.98x0.95mm_HandSolder | R5 |
| 1 | 15V | Diode_SMD:D_SOD-323F | D1 |
| 1 | 2K4 | Resistor_SMD:R_0603_1608Metric_Pad0.98x0.95mm_HandSolder | R8 |
| 1 | 3.3uF | Capacitor_SMD:C_0805_2012Metric_Pad1.18x1.45mm_HandSolder | C3 |
| 1 | 47K | Resistor_SMD:R_0603_1608Metric_Pad0.98x0.95mm_HandSolder | R7 |
| 1 | CYPD3177 | Package_DFN_QFN:QFN-24-1EP_4x4mm_P0.5mm_EP2.7x2.7mm | U1 |
| 1 | LED_Small | LED_SMD:LED_0805_2012Metric_Pad1.15x1.40mm_HandSolder | D2 |
| 1 | USB-C Power | Connector_USB:USB_C_Receptacle_HRO_TYPE-C-31-M-12 | J1 |

ymfpfp/blot
Create programmatic art in our web-based editor and submit it to the gallery and we'll send you a CNC machine which can make that art. Blot is a "You Ship, We Ship" project from Hack Club (like Sprig).

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wolfgangfriedrich/P42-USB-C-PD-Sink-EPR
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25 parts, built around the DMP3013SFV. The full list of its parts is on this page, with links to each part's symbol and footprint where PCBKit's library has them.
From the ymfpfp/blot repository on GitHub, at the commit this page was made from: the board is hardware/motor-control-board/circuit/power-delivery/CYPD-3177 Breakout.kicad_pcb and its schematic hardware/motor-control-board/circuit/controller/Control Board.kicad_sch. PCBKit opens the board in the browser, with nothing to install.
Its repository publishes it under the MIT licence: you may reuse it on that licence's terms (keep the author's notice, and for a copyleft licence share your changes alike).