Steps:
* Automate your machine
* Document the group project and your individual contribution

PluriBot

For this week's assignment, after a brief session of brainstorming, we decided to design a CNC machine to automatically fill bubble wrap with fluorescent liquid. The idea is to combine pixel art with gel tonic water, recycling used bubble wrap to make something artistic.

Since we planned and built everything together, we shared the effort, so that everyone of us had the same knowledge of the machine.

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Automate your machine -my contribution-

In this week I optimize the shape of the servo element that give us the Z axis

I took the opportunity to follow the work of Gianfranco Caputo, who is a magician in programming. I was available understand the Gestalt system from the [m]MTM site and to give him a way to confront with someone although my programming skills were very few.

As you can see, to add a servo motor controlled by the virtual machine, we using an Arduino listening on the serial port for a specific character to move it. To do it we using an additional separate serial port to communicate with the Arduino UART. After a lot of reverse engineering of the gestalt.cpp and gestalt.h files made by Gianfranco, he create a custom shield for an Arduino Uno that provides RS485 connectivity and pairing procedure on the FabNet. I milled the shield.

Here a folder with all you need to build and program a Pluribot.

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