Wireless egg-bot (sphere-o-bot)

This is the source repository of my take at the sphere-o-bot from jjrobots. The original project can be found here: http://www.jjrobots.com/product/sphere-o-bot/

3D Printing

For this project I've printed the frame from http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1956649 and the parts from http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1683764.

Software

The supplied source code is meant to be used with Inkscape and the gcodetools from http://www.cnc-club.ru/gcodetools. The motors are controlled by a MotorShield V2 from Adafruit and their respective library.

The python file which communicates with the eggbot converts all curves into lines, since my simple interpreter only understands G01 commands. Afterwards the commands will be sent over the serial interface. It can be called as follows:

python send_to_arduino.py -f <gcode-file> -p <port> -r <resolution>

where resolution is the resolution of the curve interpolation. You can lower this value down to 0.5 for increased resolution on curves, 2 seems to be a good compromise between quality and speed.

Finished Project