The GIST Hub

Another great meeting on Monday night, My Machine is nearing completion. The mechanics and Electronics are complete, The Teacup firmware is installed and it sort of prints, just adjustment left to go. (Watch out for some more pictures and a brief write up on both my blog and the RepRap builders Blog, when I get to them)

Keith brought along his Prussa Mendel (Same model as the User Groups shared machine) which looks to be coming along great. Keith is onto his electronics the mechanics are looking largely complete.

The Arduino guys who came along brought along some interesting projects, Both Midi to CV and CV to Midi as well as fledgling robotics projects. There was also discusion around a members project tobuild some torque measuring instrumentation. Thanks to John, Chris and everyone else who shared their Arduino Projects and Aspirations with us.

Whilst Keith and my own machines are not realy Arduino projects, i guess these could be comfortably described as such as both use an Arduino Mega as the ontroler for the machinery.

I guess I can’t stress enough how much synergy there is between the Arduino and Reprap groups. With many oportunities for each group to do their own thing as well as contribute making to each persons projects on an as needed/available basis. There is no pressure to go either way and some members whilst having principle interest in one area often come along and do or share somethng completely different with the area.

in summary it was a great evening, looking formward to many more of the same.

Thought I should announce that I am working on an arduino related project.
http://stretch.deedah.org/waterbear/ is my attempt to make a scratch type graphical programming environment for writing arduino code.

It is no where near ready yet but John Mosley reports he can write the blink script in it already.

The project is based on the graphical javascript editor http://waterbearlang.com/

My github for the arduino code is here https://github.com/stretchyboy/waterbear come and join in or just post issues when you find them.