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    I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert

    Stuff Made Here

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2024–2026

    YouTube

    23:39 · 12M views · May 27, 2023

    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.

    HN commenters recommend it as the physical-machine take on replicating handwriting, with plenty of explained iteration.

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    4 comments from Hacker News

    1. @sandreasMay 2024· in “Coding My Handwriting”

      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]

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    2. @xz18rJun 2026· in “Writing Postcards with a 3D Printer”

      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

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @mdorazioSep 2025· in “Making a font of my handwriting”

      For those who were hoping for the physical version of this, I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic: this video

      RecommendsView on HN
    4. @DaSHackaMar 2025· in “Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges”

      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

      CitesView on HN