Hey Ron, That sounds super cool and I'm hoping I can make it tonight to check out your project.
It's a little bit funny in fact, because last week I was working on something similar. I was thinking along the lines of simple Python code, running on a Raspberry Pi, being able to control various AVR-based robotics boards over USB (I was hoping to play with FTDI's newer USB to SPI chips once I get my eval board). I've started a simple dual DC motor controller as a proof of concept. For now I'm using PySerial to communicate with the AVR on top of a Python/GTK+ GUI. I've still got some work to do, but, I have a screenshot of the GTK+ GUI at http://static.micahcarrick.com/media/images/avr-motor-controller.png Hopefully I can make it out. If not then we'll have to catch up and talk robots at another meeting. Cheers, - Micah On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Ron Jackson <[email protected] > wrote: > I'm working on a series of electronic kits for robotics that connect > to a host computer through a USB port and enable it to read sensors > and control motors. The first kit measures eight analog and > counter/timer sensor inputs, while controlling the position, speed and > acceleration of up to 16 servos. The servos are optically isolated > from the rest of the circuitry, and there are several other neat > features. > > I've written a couple of python programs to demo the board, and a USB > serial communications library (a simpler PySerial). I'd like the code > to be as readable and useful as possible. > > I'm looking for a python expert who could look over my code and make > suggestions for improvements. I'd also like to create GUI versions of > my demo applications using wxPython, so I'd appreciate some advice on > how best to do that. > > If you would like to look over my code or are just curious about what > I'm doing feel free to stop by. I'll be the guy with the sixteen > servos at the meeting. > > -- Ron Jackson > _______________________________________________ > Portland mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland > -- - Micah Carrick <[email protected]> Senior Software Nerd *Quixotix, LLC* * **Foolishly Idealistic* * *Portland, OR http://quixotix.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20120815/5df9b6ee/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
