This week we tried to get our machine moving, My main contribution was to try to understand the gestalt code and the correlation between the supercoordinates in the python script and a full 360° turn on our stepper motor. This had its complications to begin with as the belt gear slid on the motor shaft so many of our experiments gave false resaults. Finaly Hafliði figured out that the coordinates needed to be: 16.** to turn one circle with a 2:1 gear ration, we have no idea why this worked. Hafliði hardcoded the coordiantes in exel but I spent allot of time to figure out how I could have seperate coordinates as a variable in python as they are inside nested lists, I made some progress but it was our instructor Bas that finaly made it work. I dit not get so far as implementing it into the gestalt script. May way of iterating variables in nested lists can be seen here.
I had a look into WxPython and WxGestalt, wich is a Module for creating grafical interfaces in python an used to make a GUI for Gestalt called WxGestalt. I went through the getting started page on the WxPython page, It doesnt seem to complicated to throw up a simple GUI but Im affraid my python skill level just wasn't up to it.