Gloria Zhu ’26 and Lee Liu ’26 got down to make a calligraphy machine throughout IAP 2024. They constructed its mechatronic elements in a month; then, fueled by Hershey’s darkish sweets, they put in lots of late nights within the Metropolis makerspace’s electronics mezzanine to complete the job. The ensuing gadget can transfer its brush pen with 5 levels of freedom, and its carriage strikes up and all the way down to range the stroke width.