Micah, I'd like to see what you've come up with. The Raspberry Pi is an interesting little board.
-- Ron On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Micah Carrick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
