Basic Concept

How many times, any of you had observed that how the simple inkjet printer works, how the old typewriter works or how the fax machines works? Well they work on a simple mechanism, known as XY plane movement. Yes! Now you think how?

Lets consider that the ink cartridges moves in X direction and the paper coming out moves in Y direction, so that it obeys XY plane movement principle. Easy but a good example. There are many machines working on the same XY principle in industries, best example is CNC machine.As our cake dresser also needs XY planer movement, so we are going to use XY table principle to build the cake dresser.

The XY table consists of a horizontal and vertical aluminium bar with an icing dispenser . The slide block, made from aluminium will move through the ball screw and create a movement on its axis and so does the topmost bar which will move in the axes of the bottom bar by the moving ball screw.In order to achieve the desired movements , the device has to be installed with a specific programming at both ends of the bars. The Atmel AVR Studio 4 complier has been chosen as the programming for this device.