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I found the post in your website! Your Thor is impressive! 🙂
I’ve added it to the Worldwide Map 😉
Hi Mohamed!
I actually designed it to be a Shield for an Arduino Mega… The PDIG1 Connector is supposed to connect the shield to the Arduino Mega.
Also, there are inputs for the opto sensors, labeled as P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6 and P7.That’s strange… Maybe you have not downloaded every file?
Please follow this steps:
1. Go here and click on Code green button and then “Download ZIP”.
2. Go to download folder and unzip it
3. Open KiCad
4. On KiCad click on File > Open Project
5. Navigate to the unziped folder Thor/electronics/ControlPCB and open the ControlPCB.pro file.It should properly open the KiCad project, if you still get this error let me know and I will look for another way to send you the kicad project 😉
Okay, so the serial communication seems to be okay and the steppers seems to be working.
So… it may be problem with Asgard. I’ve tried it today and it works for me, so let’s make it works for you 🙂
Quick check:
1. Be sure that you have installed the required dependences:
– PyQt5:python3 -m pip install pyqt5
– PySerialpython3 -m pip install pyserial2. Launch Asgard using Python3:
python3 asgard.py
3. Post here if you receive any error or if it works!Hi Mohamed!
I think I found a commit with the gerber files of the first version of the ControlPCB (single layer): https://github.com/AngelLM/Thor/tree/a45186dc852a9880c0d2699d243ae8d5bddf9bb3/electronics
Check it out and tell me if that was what you were looking for 😉
Hi Colin!
Thanks your words, I’m glad you like it!
Regarding the Asgard issue, have you been able to execute a Gcode command via Arduino IDE Serial Console? (More info about this in Firmware Documentation)
If that is not the problem, maybe there is something wrong with Asgard´s python code… And I´m pretty sure that would be this line:import serial_port_finder as spf
I´ll take a look to it meanwhile!Hola Iván,
Habría dos maneras de hacerlo. Por un lado, generar un archivo .gcode y ejecutarlo con el Universal Gcode Sender.
Por otro lado, se puede programar un script en python que envíe por el puero serie las instrucciones de movimiento (un ejemplo de ésto último puedes encontrarlo en este repo)
Espero que sea de ayuda!—-
Hello Ivan,
There would be two ways to do it. On the one hand, generating a .gcode file and running it with Universal Gcode Sender.
On the other hand, you can program a python script that sends through the serial port the movement instructions (an example of this can be found in this repo).
I hope it helps!“The first variant probably allows to connect the male PCB connector directly into the Arduino female connector?”
Yeah, you are right!It doesn’t matter the direction as long as the connections match with this diagram would be ok.
I see, could you please share your $$ settings?
You can view them by sending$$via Serial to the Arduino.PD: Sorry for the late reply!
Hi EleKoPhi!
Could you please share your $$ settings? To see the these settings just send
$$via Serial to the Arduino and it should send them back to you.No problem with that! The purpose of this forum is to answer this kind of questions 🙂
The main disadvantage when lifting more weight is the strength of the motors. Specifically of the motors of the last 3 joints. While it is true that the motors of joints 1, 2 and 3 are not very strong, the small motors of joints 5 and 6 are not capable of supporting a heavy load.
Yes, I was referring to the interchangeable gripper as the tool.
Don’t hesitate to ask any questions you may have!
