Monthly Archives: May 2014

Parts are slowly rolling in

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A big lovely batch of shiney stepper motors arrived today. My electronics parts came last week (£650 of ICs and connectors – that is always so disappointing to receive). I’ve got a pile of touchscreens, and stepper motor drivers, and a big bag of drive sprockets. A big box of MEGA2560 R3s. Red ones.

The first version of the Polarshield v2 was tested and found wanting, so I’m expecting the samples of the final version at the beginning of next week. The first batch of PCBs took a week to arrive, this batch has taken three weeks so far. I am looking for a new supplier.

So unfortunately, that has eaten up all of my contingency, and then some, and so I’m already behind before I’ve even started. Great!

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Running Polargraph on RAMPS

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There’s been a bit of discussion on the forum about the adaptations required to run the Polargraph firmware on RAMPS. The good news is it’s easy. I’ve just committed some changes to the polargraph_server_polarshield firmware that should make it easier to run on different hardware other than the Polarshield.

There is a little chunk of code like this in the main polargraph_server_polarshield.ino file:

#ifndef MOTHERBOARD
#define MOTHERBOARD POLARSHIELD
//#define MOTHERBOARD RAMPS14
#endif

Comment out the POLARSHIELD line and comment in the RAMPS14 line, and your machine will be rigged for RAMPS. See this Polargraph wiki article wot I wrote up.