It Works!
I’ve spent the last few weeks with my new obsession. Not the repstrap the software and firmware to download 3D solids to the Arduino http://www.arduino.cc/ from Processing http://processing.org/.
My original thought was to send the xyz data from the xml file that Slice and Dice produced. There were too many communication problems. Then I did some research into g-code that cnc machines use and decided to make a g-code parser for the arduino. It’s not real g-code, more of a subset with extentions, but it could be rewritten into a real g-code parser and, if I ever try to make a cnc machine, that’s what I’ll do. The firmware for the Arduino is also available.
Want to see the Processing program? Here you go. Source code for Processing 0125 is available for download at: http://www.freewebs.com/adub/
Processing is an open source programming language and IDE but to use the source code you will have to download it. The executable also available as a little larger download. It contains the executable for Windows, OSX, and Linux as is standard for Processing.
Through rambling for today! :)
