Comments on: New updates come to UNO

By: sandy

sandy — Sun, 05 May 2013 18:19:57 +0000

EDIT – I’ve just reinstalled my windows system and neither 32 bit nor 64 bit versions worked. Until I installed quicktime (urgh) and WinVDIG. Then 32 bit started working. I’m going to take the video stuff out of the controller, it’s too much hassle.

By: sandy

sandy — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:49:53 +0000

Hm that’s annoying. If I run the 64 bit version that happens, where the properties file is generated, but then, nothing. But the 32 bit ver works ok. Does it run from source?

By: Wingman

Wingman — Sat, 04 May 2013 15:39:59 +0000

Thanks for the link!
Using the wires of the gondola to power the servo is a great idea. Maybe ill put some information about my dawbot on the forum. The results were better than I expected but the cheap chinese motors quit working last month. So I have to use real Motors and drivers for the next attempt.
Regarding the software:
I already tried other computers. Same thing with windows 7. Compatibility or admin-mode dont work either. The program even creates its properties file but wont open. The older version works perfectly fine.

By: sandy

sandy — Sat, 04 May 2013 13:54:27 +0000

What’s the problem with the controller? I’m running win8 64 bit too, but I have 32 bit java installed, so the 32 bit precompiled app works ok.

By: sandy

sandy — Sat, 04 May 2013 13:46:58 +0000

I guess it is this one –
https://github.com/mattvenn/arduinosketchbook/tree/master/energyPlotter/leonardoTests

He’s got a very cool board that can control the motor current programmatically, so it switches to a low power mode for just holding still, and then ramps back up when it needs to move. And it also powers and controls the servo over the hanging wires too, so no trailing wire, _and_ has end stops.

By: Wingman

Wingman — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:37:02 +0000

I just put the file in the sketch folder. It should not be a problem on other boards but for an uno or nano it is just too much code. Do you have a link for Matt Venn’s firmware? I searched his website and github but could’nt find anything.
By the way, the controller is not working for me either. I’m running Win8 64bit. The processing code is also returing errors.

By: sandy

sandy — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:10:09 +0000

Ah, yes EEPROMAnything, pesky thing. Did you just put it in the sketch folder? I tried a couple of things to try and figure out where it needed to be to actually work, and am no clearer now about it’s proper place. Obviously eventually I forgot about it…
I’m not sure where the increase in size has come from to be honest – accelstepper has seen a bit of change, so it’ll be a wee bit bigger, and the penlift stuff is a touch bigger too, so maybe it’s as simple as that. Yep, AFMotor is great but obviously only useful for adafruit shields. Have a squint at Matt Venn’s firmware for his drawing machine – he has sd card integrated, using a minimal FAT library (rather than the standard arduino SD library, which is a stinker of a size).

By: Max

Max — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:51:29 +0000

I noticed that EEPROMAnything.h is not in the sketch folder.
After copying the code from the arduino website the sketch seems to be too big for my arduino nano.
I am currently working on exchanging the adafruit motor library(which is useless if you are using other drivers) with the SD library so the nano can draw as fast as the mega. Long way to go…

By: sandy

sandy — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:12:12 +0000

Right, I have just re-uploaded the zip, with the app in place this time (fingers crossed). Yep I use Processing 1.5.1 and the versions of the libraries in the zip. Should be newest (generally), but I haven’t updated to the new controlp5 yet. I’m getting some nasty errors to do with the webcam on a couple of systems, and not quite sure the best way to handle that. If you can’t get it running, let me know!

By: AndyB

AndyB — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:08:14 +0000

The libraries are there, I just forgot to put the diewald CV kit library in my processing libraries folder, whoopsy. Still getting error messages tho, trying to run the processing source, but it’s probably something on my side..I’m running processing 1.5.1