The PiSim[le GUI library is built on top of TKinter and two other libraries. You get to choose. One of them is web based. It is nice to be able to spin off web-based version and control my gadgets with a cell phone. But the tk version has the most functionality at present.
Like I said, this is best used for doing fast work. You can be done very fast. In development many times at the beginning we want to try ideas then over time settle on one design idea. Then it is time to re-code it all and make it fast and neat. For prototyping and one-off work the simple thing is good. Also they do give you options for space and size. Maybe not as much as you would like but you can get down inside the details if you like. On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 3:20 AM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On 11/5/22 21:14, Chris Albertson wrote: > > For making a simple and quick GUI in Python I found > > https://www.pysimplegui.org/ > > > > With this, I can make a basic GUI app in 15 or 20 minutes with > checkboxes, > > sliders, and so on. It uses dramatically fewer lines of code. It is > built > > on top of tkiner which is the default Python GUI. There is next to zero > > learning curve. Anyone can pick it up quickly. I use this for making > > robot controller panels, where I have many sliders for parameter > adjustment > > and a few action buttons. But it does not do things like OpenGL in a > > window. > > > Looks interesting Chris, bookmarked, but ATM I like the looks of > qt-dragon if > I have to replace axis. > > tkinter wastes way too much screen real estate with its huge mandatory > borders around text. But at the same time I have 20 years > in making axis do what I want. gtk3 looks to be better than gtk original > but at 88 > yo, learning a whole new language won't be all that easy. pyvcp has > done 90% > of my wilder ideas, but does have its limits. And ATM I have other irons > in the fire > with the ultra short lifetimes of 3d printers. I now have about $1500 in > a prusa mk3s, > and its mosquito hot end is leaking, again. > > So I have a house and back porch ful of dead printers and am working on > collecting the parts to build up both an Ender5Plus an a tronxy-400-pro > into > 500mm/sec printers. > > Like taking the build plate heaters up to 63 VAC power from a 48 lb 2/1 > toroid > txformers output just to shorten the 15 minute preheat times of their > bigger beds. > > I'm planning on using the 24 volt bed power as triggers for a 4 pack of > 60am SSR's, > two in parallel to power the transformer when one of the printers call > for bed heat, > and two more to send the 62 volts from the transformer back to the bed > that called > for heat. No use powering the transformer when the printers are off or > idle. > > And I have BTT's octopus-pro's and displays with the higher voltage motors > coming along with a dozen 60 volt rated, 3 amp drivers for them, and a 4 > pack > of banana-pi's to run octoprint. And the buggy Marlin firmware's are > going to > be gone in favor of klipper when I'm done. > > What ships with the tronxy has never made a print yet becausethe bed > distance > touch off does not "take" and the bed warp comp only works when it wants > to, > never both at the same time. With at 450mm x 450mm bed that warps up in > the middle when heated just like an alu skillet on the cookstove, a working > ABL is very important. > > So when I am done with the rebuilds, I'll have 63VAC bed heat, and 48 VDC > on the motors. And will probably have carved up quite a pile of gussets to > re-enforce frame corners on both the the big ender and on the tronxy-400. > > Not advertised is two more even bigger 500mm and 600mm versions that > tronxy makes, including one with casters to roll it around on the floor > as its > envelope is 600mm by, and its frame is over a meter high wide and deep. > > And I think it ships with the same buggy and broken electronics, so > if you want something that Just Works, stay away from tronxy. > > I may wind up with nema-23 3 phase motors for x&y on both of them if I > don't miss morning roll call first. Those are amazing. > > Klipper, among other improvements, can use the output of a sparkfun > accelerometer > pasted on the head to correct in real time for frame and belt elasticity > you see > everytime you push marlin past about 50mm/sec. Active feedback like in > linuxcnc. > but linuxcnc can only use the encoder outputs. That I think is only > because nobody > has tried, the tools are already there but it would take an > accelerometer ($15 from sparkfun) > on everything that moves, gantry and head for a 6040, or table and head > for a 3 axis > like the go704. > > Creative is out with a couple of new hotends called "Spider" that look > promising if > diamondback nozzles will work. An Olseson ruby works so there is a much > less > expensive option, and the ruby is good for 500C where the diamond starts to > ablate if above 260C for long periods. > > This is all off-topic of course, but who knows, klipper might get > replaced with linuxcnc > if I could cobble up enough mcodes to match. Marlin has more mcodes > than gcodes. > And I expect klipper has them too. > > But how much time to do all this do I have left? IDK. > I will entertain PM's about this just to keep it from drowning the list. > > [...] > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
