Updates: Makelangelo #54, Arm3 #22, and GcodeSender #7

[Anonymous]

Goodbye, RXTX. Hello, JSSC!

Fixed the RXTX version mismatch warning!
Also fixes slow start ups, crash on disconnect, and several other RXTX related bug.

To make this compile across all systems without poking code I had to upgrade OSX Java JDK to 1.7.

[Anonymous]

Now I’m going to write a big blog post about how the drawing style system works.
I hope I can make it easy enough for everyone to start adding their own ideas.

[Anonymous]

I already have an idea to seriously improve the zigzag style.
As I understand zigzag code is from the times when the pen always contacted the paper.
It has a few connecting lines and (what’s really bad) sometimes they’re outside the actual picture.
But if the pen was up on those lines that wold really improve the picture!

I don’t know how hard it’s to implements this.

BTW I also tried spiral code and it’s slower and the picture is worse for me (I use dry-erase pen on a white board).

[Anonymous]

The default speed for the pen tool is lower. Try choosing the pen tool and then editing the default speed to something higher, like 4000 or 4500.

On the 2 and 2.5 systems the speed limit is the synchronous communications – the robot finishes a line, asks for another, listens, interprets, then draws, repeat. On the 3 it can do all that and draw at the same time.

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