Hello,
I wanted to know if the adafruit led strip is waterproof,
and if not, can you recommend me of one?
thanks,
Amit
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Adafruit DotStar Digital LED Strip - Waterproof?
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"Failed to connect to EggBot. :("
I am setting up a new Eggbot but I am seeing a "Failed to connect to EggBot. :(" error whenever I try to apply anything in the Inkscape Eggbot Controller. I am able to see the Eggbot controller board in my windows device drivers and control panel on COM 5 when I plug it in. I have seen posts about "Unable to find an Eggbot on any serial port. :(" and did see that error, but I have corrected that issue and now am seeing the failed to connect error. Can anyone offer any advise on a next step to try.
I am using Windows 8
Eggbot Software: Version 2.7.1
Inkscape 0.91
Power Led is solid Green and USB LED is flashing Green
Thank you.
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need software link for EBP (please)
I gave my wife an EggBotPro for Christmas and am setting it up. The link to software is evilmadscientist.com/ebp and i get a page not found error.
I haven't been able to find the download anywhere else on the site. Can anyone send me a link or hint ?
Thanks
Guy
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Can't install on macOS Sierra, says it requires ink space 0.47 or newer, but I have 0.95.
Refuses to install :-(
Any ideas?
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atmega164 pinouts help
I am looking at the Octolivley schematic and i am wondering if it matters which visible Led pin goes with a IR receiver pin on the atmega164 IC?
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Atmega 164
I wondering if i could get some help about the pinouts on the Octolivley atmega 164 microcontroller. The pins that drive the visible LEDS, are they controlled by voltage or current?
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Love the Mega Menorah 9000! ... but might have overheated mine?
Does anyone have any suggestions about what's a reasonable length of time that the MM9000 should be able to be plugged in and running without overheating the components? I'm wondering if I might have connected something wrong, because the other night I had been running mine for about 15 minutes when it suddenly stopped working. When that happened, the 4-pin Color button felt very hot to the touch, but all other components were still perfectly cool. Do button switches have a a correct orientation that they're supposed to go into the board? I didn't think they did, but it's worth checking! I'm wondering if I killed that button with excess heat. Is that possible?
Now when I plug in the menorah after that event, the LEDs go on and I get power to the board, but the LEDs aren't being controlled by the programmed chip, it seems, because they're just doing their own thing and going on and off and choosing colors at random without responding to the Color and Night buttons. I can see from the schematic that the Color button is connected through R1 to one of the chip pins, so I'm guessing that if I burnt out the Color button, that would probably break the circuitry that controls the LEDs? (Is there a way I can test with a multimeter to find out if the button is dead, or if it's something more serious like the chip being dead?)
Thanks for any advice you can give me, and thanks to Evil Mad Scientist for making this great kit! I loved putting it together!
Now when I plug in the menorah after that event, the LEDs go on and I get power to the board, but the LEDs aren't being controlled by the programmed chip, it seems, because they're just doing their own thing and going on and off and choosing colors at random without responding to the Color and Night buttons. I can see from the schematic that the Color button is connected through R1 to one of the chip pins, so I'm guessing that if I burnt out the Color button, that would probably break the circuitry that controls the LEDs? (Is there a way I can test with a multimeter to find out if the button is dead, or if it's something more serious like the chip being dead?)
Thanks for any advice you can give me, and thanks to Evil Mad Scientist for making this great kit! I loved putting it together!
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Robopaint - create/edit drawing doesn't seem to work
Hi there,
My students and I have a new WaterBot in our library, and although we've been able to successfully print the canned images that come in the RoboPaint software, when we try to create our own drawings, we can't seem to get it to print. We've tried uploading our own images from the web too, and then tracing over them to create the "paths" but that doesn't seem to work either.
Any advice?
Thanks!
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Laser on Eggbot
Hi everyone.
I saw a video where a guy hooks up a laserdiode on the eggbot.
How can i do this i found absolutly nothing on google. Can i connect the laser with the eibotboard?
Wfg
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possible workflow? .tex => .dvi => .svg => Inkscape => AxiDraw
Hello,
is it possible to print a text that is layouted with LaTeX (.tex) with AxiDraw?
You can convert .tex to .dvi and then to .svg and import it to Inkscape.
Can anyone check this workflow?
Thanks,
Matthias
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new Inkscape 0.92?
Does AxiDraw work with the new Inkscape 0.92?
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HersheyText Addon Inkscape
Hi,
I'm interested in the Axidraw to write "handwritten" cards to my customers. I have a couple of questions that i would like to have answered before the i place the order.
1. Single line fonts
I downloaded the HersheyText addon for inkscape. It works but it seems to only work with one line at a time. Is it possible to copy and pasty the complete text in the addon and have it automaticly in the same format with linebreaks/enter?
Right now if i past a complete letter it puts everything in one line. It takes a long time to copy a letter sentence for sentence.
2. Normal fonts Preview
Do you have an preview of a normale fonts that is written with a fountainpen?
Thanks in advance for the time taken to answer my questions.
Kind regards,
Rene
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Servo on robotic arm causing power glitch
I made a PCB to control 6 servos (MK 996) on a robotic arm. The board also supplies two LCD/touch modules. The device is controlled by a Teensy 3.2. When I drive a couple servos the LCD panels blip. I believe that I need to add some capacitors to either or both servo bank and LCD panel bank. The power is 5V and I am supplying 5A. What size of capacitor(s) should I use and where?
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Failed to connect to EggBot. :(
Hi,
I am trying to make my first plot and I keep getting this error message. I tried "Check EBB Version" and get the same error. I am running:
mac OS Sierra 10.12.2
Inkscape 0.91
EggBot2.7.1._Mac
with EBB v2.3
The usb light is blinking, the power light is on and I've tried both USB ports on my MacBook Pro.
Help...
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Octolively Board
Can anyone suggest what frequency crystal resonator to use with the Octolively board?
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Is It Broken?
Hey all,
Received my Axidraw yesterday, very excited to unbox it and get going. Setup, tried to run on a mac to no avail! Overtime I tried to open Inkscape, the Quarkx programme would open over the top, and couldn't get around it. OK, moved on to Windows, got something going there.
Used the Hershey Text to run a simple 'test' (with just the word) test.
What happened was a mix of loud vibrations, so much so that the contact with the paper just produced really jagged lines. It also did not map the text properly, but more did one letter, then overlaid the next letter sort of on top and to the side slightly, then moved down slightly. It didn't even align each letter, so the T was more like |_
Finally, once the divide had 'finished' plotting, it would just stop in position (pen raised) but did not return to the home location.
Any help or advice where I might be going wrong would be much appreciated.
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I want to know more about the EBB in detail.
How to easily type commands to EBB using a terminal emulator, or write my own application to send commands for moving the stepper motors(moving the Axidraw)? I want to know more about the board in detail.Could you please provide the resources?Thanks a million~
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Difficulty installing inkscape extensions
Axidraw arrived today.
I had an older version of inkdscape already on my MAC Book Pro (OSX 10.9.5), but used "AxiDraw_Mac_v122.dmg" to overwrite it.
Axidraw does not show up on the extensions menu.
Rebooted / reinstalled / re-read instructions
Looked for /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/extensions/ , but it did not exist, so I created it manually, and moved the files from the zip file into it, and rebooted again.
The extensions menu still does not show axidraw.
Note also that the stuff that IS on the extensions menu is NOT in the directory with the axidraw extension files.
Can there be another one elsewhere? What am I not seeing?
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Pen Up / Pen Down
Can I get a 5V signal from the ebb board (or elsewhere) that corresponds to either pen up or pen down?
New Axidraw woks fine, by the way.
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How to do to prevent a 556 timer IC from becoming too hot?
HI
I’ve built a circuit. Here’s the schemic:
The values used allowed me to have intervals from about a half-second all the way up to nearly a minute. The drive or "high" time controlled by the monostable timer (R3 and C3) allows for timings between a few milliseconds to a few seconds.
I added R5, a 1K resistor, later to ensure that the interval wouldn't go below a few hundred ms.
It's been running quite well, actuating the solenoid at regular intervals as designed. The TIP122 transistor is barely warm, the solenoid is within normal temperature for its duty cycle, but the 556 timer IC is too hot to touch. It's been operating continuously for 24+ hours without any failures, but I am concerned because I think that this IC should not be warm at all.
I’ve read the details of 556(http://www.kynix.com/Detail/1126840/NE556.html), and still have some questions. Is there something I overlooked in this schematic that should be done to prevent excess heat in the IC? I haven't (yet) measured current usage by the IC alone, but the total circuit draw is 125 mA on standby and 2A when the solenoid is actuated.
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