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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