Since the machine that my group built basically was an (r,Theta)-plotter and none of us had any experience in writing code for such a machine, we ended up just changing numbers and looking how the machine behaved without knowing what the numbers meant. I hope at a later stage my knowledge of the Python language will be good enough to properly program our Mandala machine as an (r, Theta)-plotter. The machine deserves it! The video below shows the very basic Mandala the machine (thanks to one of our more Python-fähig group members) can draw now. The video also shows another major problem we had: literally in the heat of building the machine and while glueing parts together, we fried both the only USB FTDI RS485 cable on Iceland and a Gestalt node! This and other things we learned while building our Mandala machine is documented in detail on our group's Machine Building website.
