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It seems most likely that there is an internal error within the servo motor itself. Please contact customer service and we can send you a replacement.
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I'm not certain that I understand exactly what you are saying; we do not have any native spanish speakers on staff. Let me try to understand. When you first start using the EggBot, the pen keeps a constant distance from the egg. But later, the serv…
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I can't really guess on the novelty, since that depends a lot on who you are and what you like to do. We hear from quite a few people who have been using theirs regularly for years, but we'd also guess that many of them just live on a lonely shelf s…
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Awesome-- glad to hear you're up and running.
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There are a number of things that have to work correctly for programming to work: The software environment, communication speed, USB interface, the cable, and power. If you'd like to try serial communication with the clock, that's a good first check…
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First, begin with the shape that you want to draw (the annulus). Duplicate the shape, so that you have a copy of it that can be used to draw the two circles.Draw a very thin rectangle that cuts overlaps both the inside of the shape and the outside o…
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The Hatches (rough) fill does not automatically work on hollow regions. We have some workarounds documented on our wiki, as well as some other fill methods that work on hollow regions. http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Creating_filled_regions In pra…
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The best method depends on a couple things: What kind of temperature sensor, and what you want to do with the data. If it's an analog sensor, you might want to use pin PA5 as an input (pin 35 of the IC), which is not otherwise used. As far as the so…
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Take a look at how a5editFontChar works. Inside, it has: byte offset = (3 * (asciiChar - a5_asciiOffset)); A byte is the same as a uint8_t, an unsigned 8-bit variable. It can only range between 0 and 255. Noting that a5_asciiOffset is 32, it is th…
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Add on: assuming that etching goes well, the properties of the ninjaflex will likely be degraded on its surfaces. That may be why it isn't recommended.
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My experience with most polyurethanes is that very little can affect them in a serious way. Solvents that destroy plastics have very little effect. I don't know Ninjaflex or other TPEs in this context, but my instinct would be that *if* you can get…
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Be sure that you restart Inkscape after running the installer. If it still isn't there, you probably have two copies of Inkscape on your computer. (Or more). Find and remove the extra copies.
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Here is more specific information about the cases under which you may want to adjust the motor current: http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/WaterColorBot_Troubleshooting#Issues_arising_from_current_setpoint_on_EBB
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> Could you possibly respond to the lights question and do you know anything about adjusting the current? Unfortunately, the lights have never been a reliable indicator in cases like this. The current is factory pre-set (to a reasonable startin…
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Had we done this more recently, we might have approached it differently. In a sense, we did, with the digital version. I don't exactly recall the original reasoning that we used for this construction, but one thing to note is that the CD4017 only …
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Hi John,I'm sorry to hear about the trouble. The first thing to do is to figure out if the issue is specific to RoboPaint, or if it's something else. - Do you get any kind of response at all within RoboPaint? - Are you able to get the WaterColorBot…
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Interesting. First, make sure that you've overridden the auto-reset. Second, there have been quite a few reports of the mega2560 having issues with the Arduino as ISP process.Here is a possible fix: https://code.google.com/p/mega-isp/issues/detail…
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You are not alone. I've actually been using 10.10 with (a slightly older version of) osxmenu since June. Installation is different, but (for the most part) everything works well. The installer is not designed to work with the osxmenu version of Inks…
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Hi Robert,If you have saved the files as Inkscape SVG files, then you should not have any compatibility issues. There is a slightly newer Inkscape version, 0.48.5, but there are not any real "critical" reasons to update. If what you have is workin…
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@crippledlord: Which version were you running before?
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First, *thank you* for your kind words, comments, and suggestions. Second-- neat drawings and paintings. Love the Dorothy! On the questions:1. Multiple color washes. You can have as many layers in an Inkscape document as you like, and you can rear…
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It looks like using the "init" command multiple times may be the issue. It allocates new memory each time that it is called, with malloc. That shouldn't be an issue (and isn't unless called in a loop!), but there doesn't appear to be any process …
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While the set of discrete transistors may occupy a volume thousands of times that of the 555 or 741 die, the difference in size is largely one of packaging. Here is an Xray through a TO-92 2N3904: https://www.flickr.com/photos/59935244@N03/54758731…
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Yes, exactly. It looks better (to us, at least) with the low pass, but this does keep it simpler.
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The presence or lack of a "blinking" program does not indicate whether or not the bootloader is working properly. It's possible to have a bootloader present with blinking and it's possible to have blinking on the "LED pin" without the bootloader. Th…
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The engraver attachment requires version 2.2.1 or newer of the Eggbot extensions for Inkscape, but does not require a firmware update. [We actually recommend sticking with the original EBB firmware version for the time being-- that's the version th…
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Can you please say exactly what is is that is "crashing" and by what mechanism? I wouldn't expect either an Uno or a Peggy 2 to be able to "crash," so I'm a bit confused. Separately, the "PeggyWriter" is a useful example, but it *is* a user-contribu…
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The values on the example circuit were picked for being easy values to find, rather than for uniformity of the output signal. Plugging the values (100 k, 100 k, 1 uF) into a 555 calculator gives times of:.14 seconds high.07 seconds low4.8 Hz overal…
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Hi Glen,Open up the "eggbot.py" file (in your Inkscape extensions) and find the line of code that says:self.step_scaling_factor = 1 Change that 1 to a 0.5, and you should be good to go.
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I can get that error if I comment out the #include line with the ds1307rtc library. Is it possible that you don't have that library installed?
