tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post4802976876988554085..comments2016-01-20T15:33:11.805-08:00Comments on Cool robot projects: Spherebot UI 2.0Activilithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953295784106973480noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-45481306429807144782014-11-20T12:44:54.374-08:002014-11-20T12:44:54.374-08:00Hello, thanks for sharing your software. I have th...Hello, thanks for sharing your software. I have the bot working, but my pen goes too fast down. Where can I reduce the speed for the pen.<br />Thanks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00100482433176728193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-65424031974934034022014-04-19T03:56:21.756-07:002014-04-19T03:56:21.756-07:00I moved the last posts to a github issue just to h...I moved the last posts to a github issue just to have a common place to collect the known bugsActivilithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953295784106973480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-36128177037955201472014-04-18T11:54:01.276-07:002014-04-18T11:54:01.276-07:00maybe it would be an idea to turn on the echo of t...maybe it would be an idea to turn on the echo of the arduino, write the output to a file and make a comparison with the sent file. <br /><br />I turned the echo off at higher baudrates, cause it was too much for the arduino.Activilithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953295784106973480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-26698621893467961982014-04-18T10:39:06.355-07:002014-04-18T10:39:06.355-07:00Ok I have tried printing the same complex egg twic...Ok I have tried printing the same complex egg twice at a slower send rate and get simmilar but different errors. the spikes on both eggs lead to the same area but begin at different coordinates. So i will try using a different usb cable and try using an even slower send rate and maybe even try a different computer for sending since before i only used a different computer for generating gcode. Thanks for your help and fast reply.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00054325173212398031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-19390836719026601092014-04-18T09:42:14.467-07:002014-04-18T09:42:14.467-07:00I know that problem. I also had some prints with t...I know that problem. I also had some prints with these spikes, but sadly I don´t know where they come from. I plan to look for the reason when I have more time again.<br /><br />Maybe the communication is too fast and some of the transmissions are false ( there is no error checking ). But It would be odd if always the coordinates were transmitted wrong. <br /><br />The only other possible explanation would be that really unicorn produces wrong coordinates sometimes.<br />I plan to integrate a gcode analyser in the gui ( which draws the gcode virtually on a canvas ) that would make it obvious if .gcode files are corrupted in that way, but haven´t finished it yet.<br /><br />are the mistakes repeatable? -> then it´s the file<br /><br />if not the problem is somewhere else<br />Activilithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953295784106973480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-16143296380365770822014-04-18T09:06:55.716-07:002014-04-18T09:06:55.716-07:00Hey first of all thanks for making this great gui ...Hey first of all thanks for making this great gui it works extremely well. I am having a problem that my not be from your sender or firmware but I was hoping you could help identify it. The plotter makes spikes half way accross the egg in the middle of a plot. It does this more often with more complex plots. I open the .svg in the provided inkscape portable, scale it to my template, save as unicorn .gcode, load the file in the GUI and press send file. I have gotten some simple plots like straight lines to work perfectly but I get this problem quite often. It seems to me that the problem would be with Unicorn, but I cant find anybody else with this problem. I tried using another computer and tried installing full inkscape and installing Unicorn extension manually but this gave the same result. Just hoping you might have an idea. Thanks for your time.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00054325173212398031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-27181876510923084762014-03-23T07:03:17.521-07:002014-03-23T07:03:17.521-07:00great to hear that it works for you now.
I added ...great to hear that it works for you now. <br />I added the dll to the repository and updated the code so no compile error should be thrown any more.<br /><br />Activilithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953295784106973480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-35504982623345610192014-03-23T06:19:23.119-07:002014-03-23T06:19:23.119-07:00I got it finally running. The last missing part is...I got it finally running. The last missing part is qwindowsd.dll <br />(13.9Mb) in the platforms folder.<br />I tried to compile it by my own but it refused finishing because of this <br />error:<br />/Spherebot-Host-GUI-master/Spherebot_UI/mainwindow.cpp:198: error: <br />'removeComments' was not declared in this scope<br />Many thanks so far, I will drop you a line once the whole bot is running.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11599581941842076459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-69232346994012397792014-03-22T16:07:27.174-07:002014-03-22T16:07:27.174-07:00Good time. I downloaded your program, but unfortun...Good time. I downloaded your program, but unfortunately they did not start on my computer. But after much research and experimentation, I found that not all platforms folder files to run the program. Then I added files qminimal.dll, qminimald.dll, qoffscreen.dll, qoffscreend.dll, qwindows.dll, qwindowsd.dll folder with installed Qt (added to the replacement of files that were in your assembly). After this application to run. While the work is not checked, as it is necessary to recompile the firmware to Arduino Uno. After that I can fully check everything. Thank you very much for the wonderful program. Sorry for the English working through a translator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00929063391963747350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-55294589100607960542014-03-22T01:37:49.579-07:002014-03-22T01:37:49.579-07:00What´s funny is that you have problems also with W...What´s funny is that you have problems also with Win7, cause I develop on Win7 and also outside of the build environment it works fine. Do you use 32 or 64 Bit version of your OS? Because I compiled it on a 32 Bit machine. <br /><br />One fix that works in all cases is to build it on your own which is not very hard to do:<br />-download the latest Version of Qt Creator and install it<br />-open the .pro file of the project and build it<br /><br />then you can run it either directly from Qt-Creator or you copy all the needed dlls to the directory of your built .exe and run the executable directly.<br /><br />In the last version of the GUI I built it statically so that there were no hassle with dlls and that stuff, but therefore it is necessary to build Qt itself statically, which is not so easy, and I wasn´t able to do it with versions later than Qt 5.x so I wasn´t able to do it this time. Activilithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953295784106973480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-64320858680495095012014-03-21T16:39:32.367-07:002014-03-21T16:39:32.367-07:00I finally tested it on WIN7, WIN8 and Linux/Wine a...I finally tested it on WIN7, WIN8 and Linux/Wine and on all platforms it <br />ends up<br />with the identical error previously posted. I suggest that there might <br />be still missing<br />something and/or perhaps some QT precompiling config needs to be <br />adjusted on your side.<br />Could it be that it just runs on your development environment because it <br />can pickup the<br />needed stuff from somewhere else? Maybe dependency walker could tell..<br />Anyway, I would really like to use your interface and I hope that you <br />can figure it out.<br />CheersAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11599581941842076459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-3970881713794541732014-03-20T08:18:05.466-07:002014-03-20T08:18:05.466-07:00ok I hope it works now ;)ok I hope it works now ;)Activilithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953295784106973480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-63280738716460051842014-03-20T03:00:58.131-07:002014-03-20T03:00:58.131-07:00Thanks for your quick response :)
There is still ...Thanks for your quick response :) <br />There is still an error message but it now differs and says:"this application fails to start because <br />it could not find or load the QT platform plugin "windows". Availiable platform plugins are: minimal, offscreen, windows."<br />This does not make much sense to me and I found another hint which <br />says, that there might be missing a libEGL.dll and/or libGLESv2.dll.<br />The issue is discussed here: <br />http://falsinsoft.blogspot.de/2013/09/qt-5-and-failed-to-load-platform-plugin.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11599581941842076459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-20720149478193557402014-03-20T00:39:59.194-07:002014-03-20T00:39:59.194-07:00Thanks for the hint Michael.
I added the folder to...Thanks for the hint Michael.<br />I added the folder to the archive. Does it work now?Activilithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953295784106973480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-63279346335900596832014-03-19T16:01:55.973-07:002014-03-19T16:01:55.973-07:00"This could be due to a missing subfolder/dll..."This could be due to a missing subfolder/dll "platforms/qwindows.dll" <br />in the Spherebot_UI/bin directory.<br />It is discussed here: http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/23367<br />Could you please add this to your archive?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11599581941842076459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-31647379089019662052014-03-10T02:35:53.050-07:002014-03-10T02:35:53.050-07:00That´s odd. But I´m sorry, I develop on a Windows ...That´s odd. But I´m sorry, I develop on a Windows 7 machine and have no experience with Win 8. Maybe someone on the Qt-forums can help you with that kind of problem as it seems to be a general Qt-Win8 problem.<br /><br />Have you tried to build it from source on your machine?Activilithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953295784106973480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8824581539117456720.post-91149439941597390782014-03-08T10:17:35.103-08:002014-03-08T10:17:35.103-08:00The Spherebot_UI seems to be throwing a error abou...The Spherebot_UI seems to be throwing a error about the QT plateform plugin. This is happening on a windwos 8 machine. Do I need to load in a pluggin as it appears the files are in the Spherebot_UI directory. Thanks.<br /><br />sandtoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00366889795241609128noreply@blogger.com