{"id":1750,"date":"2011-10-24T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2011-10-24T19:35:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T00:35:25","slug":"controlling-the-cricut-personal-desktop-cutter-via-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/controlling-the-cricut-personal-desktop-cutter-via-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling the Cricut Personal (desktop cutter) via Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/action_shot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/action_shot-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cricut personal cutter\" title=\"Cricut personal cutter\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/action_shot-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/action_shot.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI caught a deal on cricut.com where they were selling their original &#8220;Cricuit Personal Cutter&#8221; (refurbished) for $49.99 ($65 with shipping). This seemed like a very good deal to me, so I bought one. By itself, the Cricuit can cut specific shapes and letters from paper (it includes a free set of shapes\/letters, and you can purchase cartridges to add more).  I plan on using it to cut metal foil (one of the few things you can&#8217;t cut with a laser cutter, because it is reflective) and potentially make stencils. I may also be able to use it as a plotter using special attachments for pens. (Circuit board resist markers anyone?)<\/p>\n<p>To make full use of it, I wanted to be able to cut arbitrary paths from my material, which means controlling the Cricut from my computer. <!--more-->Luckily it comes with a built in USB port that is recognized as a standard serial port. Also luckily, other people have already figured out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/cricutwiki\/index.php?title=Cricut_Commands\">the command and control protocol<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/vangdfang\/libcutter\">built a library<\/a> to control it. <\/p>\n<p>I found the directions on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/cricutwiki\/index.php?title=Setting_Up_Libcutter\">this page<\/a> very useful getting libcutter working. So far I have simply use the draw_svg utility program that is included with libcutter to cut out vectors created in Inkscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught a deal on cricut.com where they were selling their original &#8220;Cricuit Personal Cutter&#8221; (refurbished) for $49.99 ($65 with shipping). This seemed like a very good deal to me, so I bought one. By itself, the Cricuit can cut &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/controlling-the-cricut-personal-desktop-cutter-via-linux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-goodlinks","tag-cricut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}