My attempt at making the ordinary egg-drawing robot a bit special, by adding a battery and a esp8266 to it.
It's not quite "wireless and portable" yet, for these reasons:
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Various battery issues(no battery in v2.0!) -
The GCode is generated by inkscape, so you need a computer
Should just work with platformio, but if you're on windows then you need to copy the repo with symlinks
Also, don't forget to build and upload the LittleFS as well - it contains a simple web interface that allows you to run GCode on the device via Wi-Fi.
If you want to connect to Wi-Fi, then you also should either change the defaults in the ConfigManager.cpp Or set the configuration via serial:
lcp wifiMode client
lcp wifiSSID (your ssid)
lcp wifiPass (your password)
lcw
(lcp stands for "local config put")
(lcw stands for "local config write") which saves it to EEPROM
Creating gcode for this thing is quite tricky - you can use the gcodetools Inkscape extension.
The process is supposed to be like this:
- Open Utils/egg.svg with Inkscape
- Insert something you want to draw as a child of Layer 1 (the rectangle is the egg boundary)
- Make it a path
- Use path to gcode (Also set minimal arc radius in the settings to something big as drawing arcs with g02 is not supported)
You can look at spiral.svg for an example