Assignment 10: Machine Design

Ï needed linux to control the Gestalt nodes. So, I installed VMware Workstation Player, and then Ubuntu 14.04 to VMware as virtual machine.


Then I downloaded Python Serial Port Extension
and installed it:
anttim@ubuntu:~/Downloads/pyserial-3.0.1$ sudo python setup.py install

Then I downloaded the Gestalt framework
and extracted it to my home directory.

At first the FTDI-USB-RS485 adapter had to be  connected to the guest operating system.


We tested the operation of a single node with single_node.py. The program asked to identify the X Axis, which I did by pressing the button in the Gestalt node.


Then we tested two nodes with xy_plotter.py. Now I had to identify Y axis too.


Then we contructed the guitar player robot using the guitar stand Dorina built, and the code Juha made for controlling the X and Y axis as a function of guitar strings.


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