Category Archives: Software

Ubuntu 12.04.2

Posted on August 15, 2013 by mkellner

My old install of 12.04 wouldn’t take an update for some reason. I took the opportunity to do a bit of cleanup and moved /home to its own partition so I can trash root in the future. The newer Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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Sanguino + Marlin

Posted on December 26, 2011 by mkellner

I’m excited to use some different software for Lil’ Brudda. The Marlin software has acceleration for smoother and faster movement of the axes and presumably is compatible with the Sanguino. But it takes some work. With Ubuntu 11.04, I installed … Continue reading →

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Blinky Belt Software

Posted on October 12, 2011 by mkellner

The Blinky Belt is pretty cool. Lots of LEDs that you can sequence. But I like a bit of variety, so I connected a couple of switches up to the controller to allow me to select from a number of … Continue reading →

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Lights, Camera…

Posted on September 21, 2011 by mkellner

You know what comes next… I’ve got lots of cameras from a prior lifetime when I wrote a webcam application. I’d like to be able to snap pix of the Makerbot doing it’s job, so I don’t have to babysit … Continue reading →

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Arduino multiple file programs

Posted on July 5, 2011 by mkellner

In writing the blinky-belt pattern software, I encountered some difficulty with using Serial.print and other library routines. #include “WProgram.h” at the top of the secondary .cpp files will fix the link error that will occur without it. error: ‘Serial’ was … Continue reading →

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