Puppy & Reprap 3d Printing

[Lucastar]

I have Qelectrotech, and it is a great program, but maybe not useful to most RepRappers.
Let's see what Lucastar thinks.

Hmm, I'm not sure.

I think that an electronics developer might like it, but I think that an everyday reprap user would find this irrelevant.

I also think that getting into a 2 disc series - [Reprapup -Dev] and [Reprapup - User] might be over the top!

I would suggest not adding Qelectrotech at this stage, but maybe look at making a .pet file to install it in the future might be a good compromise?
Does it open 'eagle' files? That seems to be the format most people post electronics in...


codecreations:

"Wouldn't USB-to-serial drivers be required as well? I know that two of the commonly used ones are CP2102 and FTDI: "

Yes, fairly essential - I guess so - forgot those...

I have tried Slic3r - and (in my opinion) it still has a little way to go before it it a direct replacement for skeinforge/sfact, but there is no reason that it can't run standalone...

The inkscape/eggbot thing? I never would have thought about it... do many people use it? I like the idea if it is easy to implement and doesn't make the disc size swell too much!

Kooliepup - approx what size is the disc? - It would be better if we kept it CD sized rather than DVD....

[CodeCreations]

Lucastar: The eggbot-related extensions are really rather trivial -- maybe a few K), but Inkscape in general is good to have on hand if you work with OpenSCAD -- regardless of why you use it. It's an awesome piece of software.

[kooliepup]

Inkscape is very definitely worth having in.
I will check if Qelectrotech opens Eagle files, if so I will include it.

We are still looking at under 500MB, I think, with everything that is in now.

It won't become a DVD.

Edit: Qelectrotech doesn't open Eagle files, unless I am missing something.

[Lucastar]

I've never bonded with Inkscape or really tried to learn OpenSCAD, but I know a lot of people like these.

Didn't realise people were using them because they play well together for 3d though..

If Inkscape can be added correctly by running a .pet file, could we put the eggbot extensions in now, ie: "inkscape ready", and not include inkscape or would it need setting up after the install?

... or is that a recipe for disaster?

I really don't have a problem with inkscape... I'm just thinking aloud....

as for pcb generation, lower part of this page:

http://reprap.org/wiki/Useful_Software_Packages

[CodeCreations]

For PCBs, I like KiCad personally, but I think it's probably farther outside the scope of reprap than Inkscape is.

I'm surprised Fritzing isn't on that list, though. That's the one they seem to like over at arduino.cc -- probably because it's also a Processing app. It's like PCB design made easy. It's not as powerful, but quite easy to use. I've actually made PCB with both of them.

[kooliepup]

I think the time has come to get an ISO out.
We could keep coming up with possibilities, and end up with a 2-DVD set.

I have included Eagle and made an ISO, which is 566MB.
Have made a CD and tested it all.
Everything works fine, as far as I can tell, not having access to a machine.

It's up to you guys now to see if it is useful.

edit/
...............
ISO here..
Login to mydrive.ch as reprap@koolie
p/w: puppylinux
...............
/edit

MD5 95e61205b9d036943bb49acbbace3a74
SHA1 0a6da164e47f90d5760be21ccf1e75a60e526928

Enjoy.

Dammit, I just tried the d/l and it requires a login.
Anyone here want to host it, PM me.

[cthisbear]

Upload them here.

http://www.4shared.com/

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In case nothing happens after you click on the verification link,
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""""""""

I uploaded >>> Kinda Lucid Puppy 006 >>> by Iguleder

to 4 Shared.

http://www.4shared.com/file/7sqsvU0p/klp-006.html

So try that mate.

Chris.

[Lucastar]

I think the time has come to get an ISO out....


...ISO here..
http://www.mydrive.ch/download/19348673 ... 1-S531.iso

MD5 95e61205b9d036943bb49acbbace3a74
SHA1 0a6da164e47f90d5760be21ccf1e75a60e526928

Enjoy.

Dammit, I just tried the d/l and it requires a login.
Anyone here want to host it, PM me.

Well Done Kooliepup!

I just got myself a my mydrive account, and It just says 'You don't have the necessary permissions to access this page'.

If you make me a guest user, username: Lucastar1 with read only permission, Then I can get hold of the file without you using more of your 5gb...


I get the same login request with 4shared, when I tried to d/l http://www.4shared.com/file/7sqsvU0p/klp-006.html

Could the iso be added to a dropbox account? -although I'm not sure how much bandwidth dropbox allow for d/l's, but I have a 6gb dropbox...

[kooliepup]

I just tried Fritzing.
What a fabulous little program.

I can't upload the ISO again, as it is more than 10% of my monthly data allowance.

The only option for anyone to get it before this time next month is if I change the password on mydrive, someone d/l it and hosts elsewhere, and I change the p/w back after.

I would prefer it to be hosted on one of our servers. (our=Puppy)

[Lucastar]

Kooliepup,

go to (your) mydrive,

settings (left hand side)

guest users (tab)

choose user (lucastar1)

create password

click 'read access'


Pm me the guest access account details;

I have unlimited internet, so I can then upload wherever

[Lucastar]

and, yes, I just looked at Fritzing too - looks great! - I like the auto route for the copper tracks... I always get bored at that point!!!

[kooliepup]

My hero.

I may have got it sorted, following your advice.
Try this.

Login to mydrive as reprap@koolie
p/w: puppylinux

It worked for me.

Post feedback if successful, or otherwise.

[Lucastar]

downloading...


gotta go out... will try to report back later...

[CodeCreations]

Awesome! I'll download it and stick it online so others can get it.

[CodeCreations]

Oh wait -- it looks like you might want to control distribution, so let me know if you *don't* want me to stick this online somewhere. (I should have read more carefully!);

[kooliepup]

No, I just wanted to get that d/l working for everybody.

It is obviously working, so I will edit earlier post.

Hosting elsewhere as well could be a good idea as Mydrive may not like open access to it and block it.

[greengeek]

I downloaded and booted from CD and the desktop is all black without icons. Is that as intended or do I have a problem?

[kooliepup]

Not meant to be.
Worked fine on 2 machines I tried.
It should look like the last screenie I posted.

It may be picking up an .sfs or .3fs from your HDD and screwing things up.
Boot with puppy pfix=ram.

Have you tried setting up Xorg from a prompt?

Check the MD5 of your ISO.

[Lucastar]

Ok, download completed correctly.

Ran disc, and just before xorgwizard, I get the following:

"Slacko puppy linux
Linux 2.6.37.6 [i6686 arch]

puppypc26696 login: root (automatic login)
ls: cannot access /usr/java/jre*: no such file or directory
#"

Then xorgwizard starts correctly, as does xwin.

(same on 2 laptops)

On my toshiba, everything starts correctly.

@greengeek - try 16bit colour:
On my compaq evo 610, I tried to start in 24bit colour, and got the taskbar, and mouse pointer, but black screen without icons.
changed to 16bit colour, and all was good.

@ Kooliepup: Most things seem to be working as I expect, but I've not had much time to check yet.
Pronterface seems to be giving weird results - not sure if this is to do with the JRE error at the beginning.
Sometimes, when clicking the desktop icon, pronterface does not start at all, and quickly flashes on the screen and vanishes again.
when it does start, the screen is not as I would expect it to be - there is no control panel for setting the position of the printhead.


The other thing that I have noticed so far is on the arduino program, and I totally forgot that we need the sanguino extensions installing if it will work with reprap boards. should be easy to fix.
[Edit - Done that]

http://code.google.com/p/sanguino/downloads/list

go for the latest, and unzip to arduino-00XX/hardware/

so that the directory looks like arduino-00XX/hardware/Sanguino

(restart arduino)

worked ok.

Although, having said that, my 1st shutdown didn't work out too well, so I will have to do it again..

I've not had a chance to plug it in to my reprap yet... that will probably be tomorrow pm

a side note, don't seem to be able to load flash through the package installer....all links appear to be down...

[Lucastar]

Good work BTW!!!