I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it as the physical-machine take on replicating handwriting, with plenty of explained iteration.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2024 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends sandreas · 2024-05 · on “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]
Recommends mdorazio · 2025-09 · on “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]
Recommends xz18r · 2026-06 · on “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]
Cites DaSHacka · 2025-03 · on “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]