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Thank you; received. I’ll take a look!
Can you please send us the file by e-mail? In order to ensure that it makes it to us intact, please zip it before sending it.
Awesome suggestion, thanks!
The LEDs at the 4 and 5 PM positions (not shadows at 4 and 5, but LEDs) are D106 and D610– again both connected to the LED6 line.
It sounds like you may no longer have a connection between the microcontroller’s output and that control line LED6. If you have a multimeter, you might be able to locate the issue that way. But in any case, try to look and see if you can identify any damage (broken/scratched wire trace, broken resistor, component pulled out of circuit board, other damage) on the way there.The relevant pin of the microcontroller is pin 6, which is directly above the top pin of J2, the 6-pin USB-TTL connector.That trace goes from that pin to resistor R6, which is the first one above the text “Opt RTC Module.” From the right side of that component, the trace is wired (on the bottom side) to a ring-shaped trace around the entire clock face. Since that ring connects independently to all the blue LEDs on line LED6, it is likely that the break is *before* the signal gets to that ring.Please let me know what you find!For reference, the servo should be hooked up as follows:1. First orient the EBB so that you are looking at the side with the components.2. Rotate the board until the terminal block is to the left, and the USB and power are to the right.3. The servo motor connects to the lowest three pins on the left hand side, terminal B1.4. The ground wire of the servo motor should be towards the outside (left hand side) of the board. This is usually a brown or black wire.Now, an EBB does not “see” stepper motors. It can issue commands to them, but does not actually detect whether or not they are present. Can you please specify a more clearly what the problem is?
– What power supply are you using?– Is the board working otherwise, for example with stepper motors?– After the servo motor is connected, is it energized? That is, does it resist turning of its output shaft?– How are you trying to control it?We’ve updated to 2.7.1 now, with a few bug fixes: https://github.com/evil-mad/EggBot/releases/tag/2.7.1
Specs are here: http://emsl.us/187(The most important part is what you already know: we recommend running them with 9 V DC.)I’m not sure what you mean by “click on fill.”
If you’re trying to create text with the regular “text” tool in Inkscape, and you want this text to be filled in with lines, the most straightforward way to fill the text is to use the Hatch Fill extension. You can read more about it here: http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Hatch_fillSome other, more specialized fill methods are also available, although they are generally less applicable for text. You can read about them here: http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Creating_filled_regionsIf you’re using Hershey Text, there isn’t anything to fill, since the letter shapes are composed of open lines.I hope that this helps. If not, can you please explain very clearly what it is that you’re trying to do, and what it is that is not working?Can you please give a little context for your question? Is this related to one of our projects or products?
Thanks– we really appreciate that!
Cheers,-WindellHi Shel,
Those are there to provide places to mount various things with cable ties. The only thing that we’ve ever used them (thus far) for is to mount the vibrating motor for the diamond engraving tool. You can see a picture of that use on the product page: http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/partsmenu/2972.7.0 is now up, with a Mac installer: EggBot Software: Version 2.7.0
We had one other report of (what we believe to be) this same issue, and were able to get their EggBot up and running with some changes to the software. We’ll be publishing EggBot 2.7.0 within the next 24 hours as a beta release, and I hope that you’ll be able to give it a try. I’ll post back here once the link is up.
We have uploaded a new version of RoboPaint, which fixes some communication issues that we were able to identify. Please give this a try:
Great– glad to hear it.
I was wondering if it might be a motor wire order issue, but that’s rarely been an issue with our kits.Good luck with the rest of your project!The behavior that you are describing sounds like what I might expect with too little current, or too high of a rotation speed. If you have adjusted the rotation speed in the extension, try setting it to 300 as a baseline value.
Questions for you:1. Are you using the standard motors and power supply that came with the EggBot?2. Does your EBB have a check mark on one side of the terminal block?3. If you disconnect the motor wires from the EBB, can you turn the motors by hand? If so, does the motion feel smooth and continuous (with very fine grain light cogging), or does it feel rough, stuck, or variable? If the latter, then your motor(s) may have been damaged in shipping.
