[sudo-discuss] robot works!

[Matthew Senate]

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On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:11 PM, april.glaser <april.glaser at riseup.net>
wrote:

> This is so RAD. Bravo.
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jake
> Date:09/05/2014 10:50 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org
> Cc: James Halliday
> Subject: [sudo-discuss] robot works!
>
> the robot finally works.  Jenny got us a three-phase power converter and
> that's all it took!  people have been steering it around using the
> training pendant all night.  It makes a squealing noise while it's on.
>
> http:spaz.org/~jake/robot/pix
> http:spaz.org/~jake/robot/video/VID_20140905_214843.mp4
>
> it has a serial port.  we are going to need to RTFM a bit to learn how to
> actually control it, for example from a program on a real computer.
>
> it can move much faster than we are able to steer it with the control
> pendant.  But for now it moves pretty slow, even on "fast" mode.
>
> here are all the PDFs i have found so far.  I believe there is enough
> information in here to be able to communicate with the thing over the
> serial port.  If you want any help actually connecting serial to it,
> please let me know.
>
> I would like to plug it into a serial port on the 3d printing computer,
> and then people will be able to talk to the robot from their laptop using
> socat or whatever program they run on that computer.  Let me know if
> you're interested in doing that.  But first read the manuals, and put
> whatever you find on the wiki page so the rest of us know where to start.
>
> http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/
>
> -jake
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