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Windell Oskay
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I can suggest two options. First, Extensions > Arrange > Restack can be used to re-order your vectors in (for example) a top-to-bottom order, which can help somewhat. Second, there is an extension included as part of the EggBot project that…
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Awesome! I agree that I don't see much neon influence here, but I'm definitely happy to have it added to the set. And, I see that you've got the updated version of Readability in there, too. I'll push it to the repository shortly.
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A low power microcontroller -- possibly a 6 or 8 pin PIC or AVR is probably your best choice for this, if you only need one input and one output. That said, "simplest" is relative. The circuit is very simple (a chip, the LED, the battery, and the s…
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Lowering the curve smoothing value, as you have done, will cause smooth curves to appear as sets of straight segments. Choose a value of 10 or higher. Also, make sure that your resolution is set to "Super", and possibly try reducing the cornering s…
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I've already corrected it in both the regular and italic versions. No worries; just wondering if you had any clever tricks for spotting these. Food for thought!
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I noticed that EMS Readability has duplicate data in the capital "E", making it print twice. Do you have any straightforward means of detecting duplicate paths like this? I only happened to notice while doing some plots!
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Which type of programmer are you using, and which firmware are you using? (That is, if using Arduino-style bootloader firmware, is it one based on the v1 or v2 firmware?)
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Interesting. My best guess at this point is that your power supply has failed (is not supplying enough current-- likely dropping the voltage under load). If so, that would explain all three of the symptoms: the motors not getting warm nor having eno…
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If they are _cold_, then that suggests that the servo motor power is well below what is needed in order to function properly. I'd suggest turning that up until the motors start to engage.
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Please leave the servo motor disconnected for the moment. If you leave the motors on for a while, do they get hot to the touch? As in, not slightly warm, but hot? Second: Please try the "preflight" test from the user guide-- with USB and power disco…
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The servo is clearly malfunctioning, as are the stepper motors. However, it's not clear which (if either) are cause or effect here. If you turned up the motor current too much, it's possible that it's pulling down the power supply at peak usage, whi…
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Thanks! These look like great improvements, and I've added them to the repository already. I'm a fan of Source Sans Pro, so it's especially nice to have that one on the list.
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In terms of communication and logic protocols, I don't see any reason why this shouldn't work. However, there is a concern with the logic voltage levels. The Alpha Clock Five uses 5 V logic, and the RPi uses 3.3 V logic. Signals coming from the RPi …
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Yup, that sounds awful! My guess is that something in the XY motion control system was genuinely broken in shipping. It looks like you've followed up with us directly by e-mail, so we'll follow up with you there.
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I have never seen a case where servo chatter influenced the lines being drawn-- the servo horn should not be in contact with the vertical slide when the pen is down. If the horn is touching the vertical slide while the pen is down, then you should s…
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I've made a few more changes for clarity and better centering, and merged it into the main branch. *Thank you* for all your hard work on this! I suppose that making a font editor is another good topic for the future.
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Thanks! One more round of minor updates pushed, just now. Also, while pondering that new Hershey Text extension, I'm thinking about moving Hershey Text development out of the EggBot repository (https://github.com/evil-mad/EggBot) and into the "plo…
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I've made some first-round revisions to that branch-- chiefly adding some detailed credits for each of the fonts, re-arranging the list slightly, tweaking the display of the font table, and revising the text and formatting of the extension. Please t…
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This may be different enough that it belongs in a separate extension, but I'm thinking about replacing a block of text with stroke-based text. This becomes much more appealing with the additional fonts that you have added.
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I've started a new branch at GitHub to track this, with your current version as the starting point: https://github.com/evil-mad/EggBot/tree/HersheyText-expanded The differences between your .inx file and the one from GitHub are actually those added…
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Ah; about those name collisions-- I meant that the new names ("bird," "capitol," "delight") were likely to have collisions, rather than the prefixes. Anyway, let's run with it. I have some new ideas for other enhancements to Hershey Text as well.
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Here is a more comprehensive list: https://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/vendorlist.aspx
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H.T.E. looks OK, although I cannot type it -- it is literally the only thing in my autocorrect dictionary! More suggestions: EMS (for Evil Mad Scientist)NH: For New HersheyHSS: For Hershey Single Stroke (Also sounds like High Speed Steel, which is …
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I see-- this was a google result. Roger that. SS is taken, as is HTS. HT1?
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Ha! HT is in use... how about that? Where did you find a list of those? (Yes, sorry for the HT -> MT substitution.) Some more suggestions:SS, for single-stroke1S, for single stroke (surely this isn't taken?)
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Can I ask why "cocoa"? That is also the name of one of the major MacOS frameworks ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_(API) ), and I'm concerned that it could lead to confusion. If the name is just because it's evocative of the name Hershey, we …
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Great-- we'll follow up there.
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Then it sounds like you'll need a driver board swap. Please contact us directly (by e-mail or through the contact form at http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/contact ) to arrange that.
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I don't see anything obviously wrong from the photo. My next question would have been whether you were getting an error (or just not machine response) but since you don't see it in the list, I would presume that you are getting a "no connection" ty…
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If you plug in only the USB cable (not the power cable), do you get any lights on the EBB?
