Fwd: FW: Hackspace Challenge - Extension

[Drew Fustini]

fyi - for those interested, the deadline is now July 19th.

thanks,

drew

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From: Fustini, Andrew <afus...@premierfarnell.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:54 AM
Subject: FW: Hackspace Challenge - Extension
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From: Jones, Stuart
Sent: Tue 7/2/2013 11:14 AM
To: Christopher Stanton; Fustini, Andrew; Taggart, Angus
Subject: Hackspace Challenge - Extension

Hi guys.



After speaking with you both, it would appear we need to give you more time to complete the challenge. This is fine, so please can you now make your final submissions on element14 by Friday July 19th?



Does this help? Let me know if you're both ok with this.



Many thanks



Stuart





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[Stephan Kulov]

That's cool.  Sorry I haven't really had time to help too much.  It might continue to be that way too.  If it's crunch time and you need me to hammer out some assembly code, then let me know.  I might have an all-nighter left in me.

Oh, and who's Andrew?

[Drew Fustini]

no worries, Ste and Michael.  I'm glad there has been an extension for the challenge, but as I was discussing with Ed, I think we should just look at the challenge as a motivation to get the PS1 PnP rolling again... but not get too stressed out about it.

As for late night assembly coding Ste mentioned ;),  I think sticking with TinyG and writing a UI with Python QT on the Beaglebone Black like Ed had been doing is a good idea.  The PRU is sexy but complicated.  We can show the value of the BeagleBone Black a cheap & complete Linux computer that lets us create a UI and talk to the TinyG (and in the future allows us to use USB webcam and OpenCV).

Cheers,

Drew

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Michael Norman <michael....@gmail.com> wrote:

Ya sorry I have not been around much also.  It has just been busy as anything with work and have had 0 free time.  And now with me in Japan for 2 weeks I can do even less.

Hopefully when I get back we can meet up and start on V2 of the PnP

Thank you,

 

Michael J. Norman

Chicago, IL 60622

803.603.8101

[Drew Fustini]

Sure, thanks.

My goal right now is to get Qt python running on the Bone so that it will output Gcode per mouse movement to the USB serial port [to which tiny g will be connected].

Did you ask Ed if there is electronics that will need to be controlled beyond?  Like nozzle selnoids or limit switches?  I'm not sure if TinyG handles all of that directly or if it will require some handling via the BeagleBone's GPIO to trigger mosfet or relays and read digital inputs from switches.

Another task I have meant to finish: I had started a layout in EAGLE layout to have a simple board with 0603 LEDs and resistors and DC barrell jack.  It would spell PS1 like:

= = =  = = =  = =

=   =  =        =

= = =  = = =    =

=          =    =

=      = = =  = = =

I was then going to send it off to OSH Park to get made.  Prob still time for that given the 19th.  Regardless it would be good to have a completed EAGLE board layout file which can be run through the EAGLE to Centroid ULP (https://github.com/boardforge/boardforge/blob/master/eaglecentroidgenerator.ulp).

I still need to figure out how to translate that from Centroid file to Gcode (open to ideas).

Thanks,

Drew

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Dan Dumitrescu <dumi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Cool Drew, let me how I can help, talked to Ed last night and he said that maybe I can help with the auxiliary electronics.
Cheers,
Dan

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From: Drew Fustini
Sent: 7/3/2013 11:32 AM
To: Michael Norman
Cc: Stephan Kulov; ps1...@googlegroups.com; Ed Bennett; Jay Hopkins; Shawn Blaszak; Dan Dumitrescu
Subject: Re: FW: Hackspace Challenge - Extension

[Drew Fustini]

thanks I can meet on Monday or Tuesday I also have a pre-production BeagleBone black that I can bring for you to use if the contest one that J initially had isn't there

On Jul 4, 2013 2:53 PM, "Dan Dumitrescu" <dumi...@gmail.com> wrote: