I debated with myself over how best to lay out my build log for this DrawBot. 1 Is it better to post the build process as I’m working on it, so that it would span numerous posts, or is it better to try to keep posting all the major steps into one post so that it is easy to follow? At the cost of appearing repeatedly repetitious over and over again, I think if I were following along at home I’d want to read either one long post that covers everything or a small series of posts that cover the few major steps. It’s easier at this stage to put all the information into one long post, revising it as I go along and pruning the ubiquitous2 nonsense out as I go.
Here’s what I’m adding in this iteration:3
- A section about optional hacks to the Adafruit Motor Shield
- More detail about the various libraries and the sketch necessary to upload the Polargraph source code
- Instructions for uploading the Polargraph source code
- Slightly better organization of my build outline
Continue reading DrawBot – The Assembly, Part III
- FYI, I was explaining this DrawBot to a friend at a party yesterday. He suggested I create a wipe board robot instead, similar to the Lady Ada and Matt Metts robots, and call it the BotWiper. [↩]
- Don’t you just love that word? [↩]
- Since this information is 95% stuff you would have seen from the prior Assembly post, I’ll put it after a little “More” tag. [↩]