I could use something simpler than AoI myself. Using Sketchup now. Would prefer an open source program. Please, release yours and lets all see if it fills the bill. Back to lurk mode. Arvinby Arvin - RepRap Host
brucew Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes just like batch files ( I am from the same > time ) > > windows 3.1 is coming back!! NEVER! If you tried to open more than one app at a time you had a 50/50 chance of having the "Blue Screen of Death" experience. I like all the eye candy in vista but I NEVER had to reboot with xp=pro or DOS Don't know whyby Arvin - RepRap Host
Ok. Kind of like the batch files I used to write in dos....showing my age? As well as my ignorance of linux....noob linux user.by Arvin - RepRap Host
brucew Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For Linux you can just make a script. Oh, That SID! Ok, "just make a script". What should it contain? That's why xsainnz's windows installer was great. Don't have to know anything. Just click. There are enough hurtles to the process without having to figure out the software installation too.by Arvin - RepRap Host
Not Sid but... really the only problem is figuring out what to download for linux and I have never compiled anything on linux. At least the instructions I read said download this and that and then compile using something.... The install script for windows was just click, click and you're done. Good stuff.by Arvin - RepRap Host
I have been using arduino software for several years.... Don't put the library files in the arduino's library. Leave it as it was downloaded from the link Ian gave earlier. Why? Each time arduino comes out with a new version you would have to copy the same files to the same locations again. By leaving them the way you unzipped them they will still compile with no problems. There is one caveat.by Arvin - RepRap Host
Great! Worked right out of the box. Using Vista on an hp laptop. Now..... How about a linux installer? Not having any luck on the machine actually going to be used with my repstrap. Have kubuntu running on it. Any suggestions?by Arvin - RepRap Host
Another small board that uses SPI to talk to an SD card: This one doesn't need separate 3.3v and 5v supplies. "Wide supply voltage range from 3.6 Volts to 6.0 Volts. Operating current @23mA nominal when using a 5.0 Volts supply source." So there are ready made solutions for reading a large ASCII file from micro-SD cards. Would take minimum coding. Arvinby Arvin - Controllers
Been inactive here for too long. Was reading this thread with interest. I also use Picaxes and ran across a thread about reading SD cards there. They were talking about a uALFAT-TF board.(http://www.ghielectronics.com/products.php) The uAlFat-TF is a small board that can read/write to a SD card. It will currently only use up to 1Gb but the board maker says they are working on the 2Gb version noby Arvin - Controllers
Quote At first glance, why is extruder thermistor configured as pin0? Shouldn't that be analog0-5 or pin6 or pin7? blerik, I think that will mean analog0. pin0 and pin1 are serial rx or tx. I haven't read/understood the code yet but he probably is using analogRead(0) to get the thermistor value. Zach. I got it all to compile! Just had to copy all the library files to my Arduino>hardware>by Arvin - Controllers
Quoteps. i just finished both the cartesian bot and extruder firmwares tonight. look for a blog posting =) I was hoping you were having success. I never got your libraries to compile. Congratulations! What's the link to the blog?by Arvin - Controllers
In other words.... value = digitalRead(19); // 14 through 19 works fine from the analog pins. same with digitalWrite per mellis in this post:by Arvin - Controllers
QuoteZachHoeken Wrote: > 3. with the current method of driving stepper > motors, we're overriding the timer stuff on the > atmega168. that means the PWM stuff no longer > functions correctly on that arduino. that means > the extruder wouldnt be able to work. we're > working on a way around this. I can agree with what you say Zach except for #3. I think I'll stick with my way oby Arvin - Controllers
Comments about you comments about your code:....got that? Quote* cartesian bot...i need to be able to drive 3 stepper motors...able to do serial comms I was worried about the blocking nature of the steppers as well as the serial comms basically fighting each other. I stopped worrying about it and only sent from Processing when Arduino said it was ready. Only problem I saw was not having an emergby Arvin - Controllers
Hi Zach. To make the gui in Processing, I used someone elses library (SpringGUI by Philipp Seifried) which then of course I had to learn how he did what. Kind of tedious, after using an ide that did all that for you, but just a lot of cut and paste mostly. In processing (Slice_Dice_xml_reader), the file called Setup has all that in it. I'm using some code Dr.Higgs wrote in vb that takes an stlby Arvin - Controllers
Hi Zach. I'm looking at your code. My, it does look organized instead of hacked like mine. I'm not really a c programmer. Spent too long using Delphi. It does so much of the code for you that you just have to fill in the blanks. I didn't make any libraries for the work in Arduino or Processing. Several files but all contained in one Sketch basically. It is nice that Processing can export the aby Arvin - Controllers
Damn, Zack. If I had know you were going to do all that I could have just sat back and waited. Could have used the time on making a working extruder head. Thanks for the kind words. It was fun. 800+ lines of code for the Processing program and less than 300 in the Arduino code. There's still lots to do. Haven't done any work on temperature readings except to stub it out. Don't have a head yet soby Arvin - Controllers
Hello all. I'm glad I found this thread, it fits my project perfectly. For a few months I've been working on a repstrap along the lines of Tommelise and wanted to use open source hardware/software to control it. Dr. Higgs made the source for his vb program that reads stl files available to me and I have written a Processing program that communicates with Arduino to control my three steppers.by Arvin - Controllers