Makelangelo 7.5.0
Makelangelo 7.5.0 is out now. Read on for more details.
New calibration point
The calibration point hidden under the paper is not great. It made restarts and “start at #” difficult. The new home position is 21.7cm from the top limit. The top limit is the line between the bottom left corner of the right motor and the bottom right corner of the left motor – the same line you measured when you calibrated the machine.
To make your life easy, I’ve got a calibration pattern for Makelangelo 7.5.0 in several flavors. Print it as-is (no shrink-to-fit). Then tape the paper to the top of your machine and you should get great results every time. Less guesswork is better.
Landscape toggle and paper margins moved
Click the checkbox to turn the paper sideways. I find that I don’t change paper margins much, so they’ve been moved off the high-rent main screen to the more affordable paper settings neighborhood.
Drag & Drop
Drag from your desktop to start converting your images. Easy is better!
All the details
- Added Landscape mode checkbox to paper settings.
- Added calibration pattern in several formats.
- Added collapsible panels in more places on the side bar (hide stuff you don’t need)
- Added DXF load option: scale the image to fit the paper (y/n)?
- Added drag & drop to start file conversion
- Added more unit tests
- Moved paper margin to paper settings.
- Changed default calibration point to (top limit)-21.7cm
- Improved look of calibration point & belts to match real machine.
- Improved Pulse converter, produces same results with less gcode.
- Fixed update check
- Fixed flash of old gcode before new gcode is loaded.
- Fixed “click X, click no, window closes anyways.”
- Fixed sometimes moves when robot first connects
- Fixed start at last line causes out of bounds exception
- Fixed file open doesn’t remember last folder
- Lots of under the hood cleaning and refactoring, as happens with older projects.
- Tried and failed to switch to Gradle package builder.
Makelangelo counterweights
Try this:
I have 150g in each bottle. By folding the belts and attaching them at the motor the bottle moves half as far, so it can’t hit the floor and cause problems.
Final thoughts
I’ll put it up for sale on Monday. One option will be flat packed DIY and one will be plans to laser it yourself. The version in our Makelangelo kits will be fully assembled and tested by us.
Yay! Thanks for all the hard work.