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Thank you for the info-- that all sounds sane. I had only meant to try restarting the computer. (Sometimes in Windows-land, that solves problems.) If you are able to, please try temporarily disabling Malwarebytes before plugging in the EggBot. It …
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That's no good! The error is spelled out in the last two lines there -- it looks like there is some serious problem communicating over USB to the EggBot. (Something along the lines of "Open USB? File not found!") I have not seen this exact error bef…
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> Is the wbc drawing components dependant on inkscape? If so would it be scriptable to specify a svg to be drawn? The WaterColorBot driver for Inkscape is built as an Inkscape extension, and does rely upon Inkscape. So far as I know, Inkscape d…
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Can you please clarify what your questions are? The Axidraw is already a drawing bot, already automated, so it's not clear what mean when you say that you are developing an automated drawing bot for it. I don't know what "peeling the note" means. Y…
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The only straightforward way to modify the duration is to use the DIP switches-- that is what they are there for. If you need two different delay times, you will likely need to either (1) reprogram the microcontroller to add an additional, fixed …
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Yes, you can edit the extension itself to customize it for your use. I'd honestly suggest just messing with the parameters there, and try it over and over again until it does what you want. Each time you edit the code and save the file, you can ju…
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Yes; solder your components. You may want to read this great old article by Bob Pease, What's All This "SMWISICDSI" Stuff, Anyhow?, that speaks to the question.
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I've split off this discussion since it was not relevant to the one that it was attached to. Try adjusting the speed of the clock to 8 MHz. The original makefile for the project uses a "-U lfuse:w:0xE2:m" argument, which sets the internal clock to …
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Please reply to the e-mail that we sent you earlier. You can add it as an attachment to your e-mail.
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This error is not actually related to the servo motor in any way. The actual problem is that there is a "bad" character in the file. It is a type of error that we have heard of before, but not been able to reproduce. If you can follow up on our ear…
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Awesome-- glad to hear it!
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The Arduino IDE is a fine method to burn a bootloader-- one of the easiest and most reliable. Just make sure that your hardware setup is matched to the bootloader that you choose.
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Yes; the Uno bootloader does require the external crystal. If you try (even once with partial success) to burn this bootloader, it can convert your chip to the state of requiring an external crystal.
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With this setup, you'll need to be very careful, since most of the bootloaders in the IDE *do* require a crystal. Which bootloader have you been writing?
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There are a few things that all need to work correctly for it to program: - The programmer- The chip- The connection between them- The software There's not much that I can say, except that you need to check each of those things to find out where the…
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A "raw" ATmega328 from the factory is configured to run from its internal clock, and does not require an external crystal. Our ATmegaXX8 mini dev kits come with a raw chip, unless specially ordered otherwise. However, once it is programmed with a b…
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For an outdoor display, you'll probably want at least 1 W of LED per "candle". You could potentially use the menorah circuit board, with each LED output going to instead drive a transistor that controls that LED. For housings, you might start with …
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Glad to hear that you got it sorted-- what did the issue turn out to be?
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Either option will work fine with the FTDI Friend and Arduino for programming. The tradeoffs are described on page 12 of the instructions. If you need to be able to communicate between your computer and the Peggy 2 via the serial port (other than fo…
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The main icons shown are a pencil and a printer, which are meant to represent editing a document and printing it-- they were not intended to reflect the actual shape of the tool used, nor the shape of the printer. Earlier versions had other depicti…
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No, this does not sound correct. Every LED should light up in alignment mode. If it does not, you should not go on to the next step of assembly until that issue is corrected. Can you please list exactly which LEDs are lighting? I may be able to help…
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It sounds like LED driver U4 is not operating correctly. Try swapping the two LED driver chips (U4 and U5). If the problem changes (for example, if none of the LEDs light), then that driver chip will need to be replaced. If the situation does not…
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I haven't really played with the color changing lights-- I don't know how sensitive those are to "rebooting" -- my expectation is that it's a similar circuit, but I don't know its properties well enough to advise on that.
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The flickery LEDs require a DC voltage source in order to operate the little circuit that flickers the LED. However, most solar yard lights rapidly flash the LEDs to dim them for low power. In cases like that, there isn't really any DC voltage there…
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If you're going to do this from within PeggyDraw, the first step would be to download the code, and make sure that you can run it without any modifications.
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One way would be to use two tables -- one for X, one for Y.
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The best location for the table will depend upon what your setup looks like. There is not necessarily any latency that would go along with it. If you have a computer feeding video to the Peggy, then it will be fastest to do the lookup between genera…
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First off, read this note about wiring off-board arrays with the Peggy 2: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2012/mailbag-hacking-peggy/ Second, it's still not clear to me in what context you want to remap the wires. The display is addressabl…
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Can you please give a little context? Is this for a Peggy 2? And, in what context are you trying to "remap" it-- are you trying to do this from within a particular program or programming environment?
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You likely wouldn't change anything on the circuit board-- just add wires between the circuit board and the matrix.
