11.5M views · May 27, 2023 · 23:39 · 3 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2024–2026
Stuff Made Here builds a handwriting robot and sends its output to a handwriting expert to see whether it can pass as forgery. It walks through the engineering trials and errors along the way.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN commenters recommend it as the physical-machine take on replicating handwriting, with plenty of explained iteration.
“really cool video by Stuff Made Here explaining how he tried to make 'realistic' handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter”HN comment, 2026
“Was very fun to watch and he also explains the trials and errors, he did.”
Builds a handwriting robot and explains trials and errors
There is a very cool youtube video with something similar from Stuff Made Here: this video Was very fun to watch and he also explains the trials and errors, he did. There is also a link to a very interesting repository of handwriting synthesis: link
“I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic”
Physical-machine version of handwriting replication
For those who were hoping for the physical version of this, I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic: this video
“really cool video by Stuff Made Here explaining how he tried to make 'realistic' handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter”
Making realistic handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter
Not a 3D printer but really cool video by Stuff Made Here explaining how he tried to make 'realistic' handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter: this video
“A video by Stuff Made Here covered what is essentially one such machine [0].”
A machine that generates handwritten notes
This unironically may be what needs to be done. A video by Stuff Made Here covered what is essentially one such machine [0]. That specific machine is meant for generating handwritten notes, but I imagine it could likely work for general purpose documents too with some tweaks. [0] this video
