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Laser cut v9 pen holder test

2013-01-23 Dan

Testing out the v9 pen holder that I digitized and then laser cut. Looks like there are still precision errors that (I bet) are bobbin related. I changed the pen holder but the error stayed the same so it must be something else…right?

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Google Hangout + Prusa Fixing

2013-01-23 Dan

Come join me this afternoon as I install a gear on my 3D Reprap Prusa Marlin. Or is that Marlin Prusa Reprap? I only know one thing about three names … Looks like I’ll be listening to Beck this afternoon, too.

Show’s over. here’s a recap.

Later today we’ll be doing another show with the parts that are being printed right now. Stay tuned for the Hangout link!

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MemoryFree reports memory usage on an Arduino

2013-01-23 Dan

Ed – I couldn’t put it better myself, so here it is, straight from the author’s mouth.

Hey Dan,

I’ve attached the free open source Arduino libray called MemoryFree I mentioned to you last night. Add it to your Arduino libraries, then:
[code]
#include <MemoryFree.h>

void printMemoryStats()
{
Serial.println();
Serial.print(F("Available memory: "));
Serial.print(freeMemory());
Serial.println(F(" bytes."));
Serial.println();
Serial.flush();
}
[/code]

You can then scatter calls to printMemoryStats() around your code to narrow down the problem areas. When I was tracking down the problems with the VHS doorbot, I ended up with calls to printMemoryStats() inside each set of curly braces, after variables, in many functions, etc (I also put calls in a number of other libraries I was using, as that’s where it was actually failing).

It let me find the problem *really* quickly (fixing it wasn’t quite so quick though :P). The more calls you put in, the easier you’ll be able to see if something is taking up an unexpectedly large amount of memory – because obviously it may just run out of memory way down in the call stack where it’s not using much additional memory, but only because a higher-level function used a lot.

Good luck!

-Richard