Michelangelo speaks : Voice controlled CNC plotter

Sammanfattning: CNC machines offer numerous advantages over conventional machining. It can be implemented in several ways and one such implementation is a drawing machine. In this bachelor thesis a voice controlled CNC plotter was designed, constructed and programmed. In order to create a better understanding of CNC and voice recognition, research questions were established and studied. The questions were mainly related to drawing speed as well as quality and accuracy of the voice recognition. The hardware of the plotter was mostly built out of 3D-printed parts as well as stepper motors, threaded rods and couplers for the movement system. The software of the plotter consisted of Arduino code, where instructions were written to make, for instance, the appropriate motor move. Tests were executed to gather data that later on were analysed. The analysis showed that the stepper motors and couplers had the greatest impact on the drawing speed as well as showing that the quality decreased when the speed increased. Furthermore the analysis showed that the voice recognition module achieved a high level of accuracy, however only when males spoke as it could not detect female voices.