Month: April 2014

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Arm3 Robot Draws 4th Order Hilbert Curve Fractal

A Hilbert curve is a space filling curve fractal. Each order of the fractal becomes increasingly dense. I programmed the GCodeSender to generate this fractal as a test pattern so that I could gauge the repeatable accuracy now and in the future.

I’ve also been hard at work teaching all the robots to write the ASCII character set. At the next Maker Faire I think I hope to have a “robot writes your tweets” system.

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Makelangelo 3 Software Update v21

This is the 21st commit in Github for the Makelangelo software.  Read on to get the details and download the latest. (more…)

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ATX South 2014

ATX is the automation technology expo. If you want to take the pulse of business robotics, this is a major artery.

Full credit to Neo7CNC.com for the video. Their YouTube channel is full of informative stuff about building your own CNC.

The next ATX South isn’t for two years, but it’s already in my calendar. Maybe by then they’ll have me as a guest blogger? I would love to attend your next robotics conference and tell the world about it. Just putting that out there.

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Can you help our open source Java projects?

I’m preparing an update for the Makelangelo 3 program. I’d like to release it this Friday.

Try the current Windows version

Try the Mac version

I thought that writing a program in Java would make life easier for everyone. Turns out there are some gotchas. Java is installed a little bit different on each version of Windows, which makes life difficult for everyone.

I really want all the programs I’ve released in the last few years to be as easy to run as Arduino or Minecraft, but I don’t have the knowledge to make it happen. Can you show me how? I’ll take anything that works!

See the Github project here

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PancakeBot Update

The PancakeBot is turning out delicious breakfasts one fancy shape at a time. I’m proud that some of our GCodeCNCDemo code has been used as the brain inside this CNC machine.

Click for larger versions of each image. Here’s the completed machine.

Simple enough for anyone to use.

I asked for a pancake shaped like a Dalek from Doctor Who and Miguel delivered.

Would you be interested in a PancakeBot of your own?