[portland] Looking for advice on a project at Python Hack Night Wednesday

[Ron Jackson]

Micah,

I'd like to see what you've come up with. The Raspberry Pi is an
interesting little board.

  -- Ron

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Micah Carrick <micah at quixotix.com> wrote:
> Hey Ron,
>
> That sounds super cool and I'm hoping I can make it tonight to check out
> your project.
>
> It's a little bit funny in fact, because last week I was working on
> something similar. I was thinking along the lines of simple Python code,
> running on a Raspberry Pi, being able to control various AVR-based robotics
> boards over USB (I was hoping to play with FTDI's newer USB to SPI chips
> once I get my eval board).
>
> I've started a simple dual DC motor controller as a proof of concept. For
> now I'm using PySerial to communicate with the AVR on top of a Python/GTK+
> GUI. I've still got some work to do, but, I have a screenshot of the GTK+
> GUI at http://static.micahcarrick.com/media/images/avr-motor-controller.png
>
> Hopefully I can make it out. If not then we'll have to catch up and talk
> robots at another meeting.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Micah
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Ron Jackson <Ron at fascinatingelectronics.com
>> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on a series of electronic kits for robotics that connect
>> to a host computer through a USB port and enable it to read sensors
>> and control motors. The first kit measures eight analog and
>> counter/timer sensor inputs, while controlling the position, speed and
>> acceleration of up to 16 servos. The servos are optically isolated
>> from the rest of the circuitry, and there are several other neat
>> features.
>>
>> I've written a couple of python programs to demo the board, and a USB
>> serial communications library (a  simpler PySerial). I'd like the code
>> to be as readable and useful as possible.
>>
>> I'm looking for a python expert who could look over my code and make
>> suggestions for improvements. I'd also like to create GUI versions of
>> my demo applications using wxPython, so I'd appreciate some advice on
>> how best to do that.
>>
>> If you would like to look over my code or are just curious about what
>> I'm doing feel free to stop by. I'll be the guy with the sixteen
>> servos at the meeting.
>>
>>   -- Ron Jackson
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