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Due to the evacuation and flooding of our city, I've had some free time to code...
New HBridge PWM Movement Panel. Combines your HBridge and PWM settings into one.
Joystick control now supports speeds and smooth turning, etc. Currently the HBridge PWM control is the only supported for speeds. Soon the modified servo, Roomba and AutoPosition will be done.
EZ-Bit Sync utility now displays download progress.
New EZ-Script command SetSpeed() supports Left and Right wheel speeds
New EZ-Script command SetSpeedLeft()
New EZ-Script command SetSpeedRight()
New EZ-Script command GetSpeedRight()
New EZ-Script command GetSpeedLeft()
Debug popup smoother
Project Open dialog includes screenshot, information link and user defined image
Here is a video demonstrating the smooth turns and control using an analog joystick and HBridge PWM on the rover...
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It's not just this project it's all projects. JD and Six as well. This is the error I get as well. Hope that helps. If there's any other info you may need, I'll do my best to provide it.
1_ScriptPony.zip
Okay, I see! I just posted a new version. But you will have to manually uninstall the previous version to upgrade to this one. That's because Windows Installer is a little dumb when it comes to release dates. It can only have one release per day... Silly Microsoft
Download the latest ARC and let me know if it works, please.
There are a few changes being done in the EZ-Bit Library while we're in beta. We should be out of beta shortly
Well my projects load without errors, and all of my bits are all back but, there doesn't appear to be any new bits to down load? Hmm? Odd.
Seriously though, thank you DJ. I appreciate your time and attention, especially when you have so much going on. If you don't mind, for my nerdy curiosity, what was the problem?
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There are no new EZ-Bits. Were you expecting new ones? Our new solidworks designer doesn't start until July 1st. New EZ-Bits will be appearing then. There are hundreds of other things we are doing in the meantime.
The problem was the XML namespace within the EZ-Bit configuration files. The same class used for the EZ-Bits is inherited from the webservice and includes an XML namespace. Microsoft's built-in webservice doesn't include a progress report in it's asynchronous methods - which is why there was no progress bar on downloading before. The new EZ-Bit downloader from this release doesn't use the Microsoft webservice, and therefore simply downloads the raw bytes of the serialized and compressed object, then saves it to the file system. For some reason, the xml namespace was missing. Which is strange, considering it was uploaded to the webservice and the xml namespace would have been saved.
Anyway, I had to create an override method for the streamreader during deserialization to strip the namespace. And in the autogenerated classes from the webservice, I manually edited them and commented out the namespace declaration. This would give the classes a default namespace of "" (blank) and the new streamreader deserializer would strip any namespace from the stringreader and convert it to "" (Blank) also. This would allow all XML files with the same structure to be read - wether the namespace is the same or not
It's always Microsoft trying to make things difficult for me haha
@Anton, I noticed in your project that you are using the GetRandom() function to play random sounds from the soundboard.
There is a Track_Random option for the ControlCommand() SoundBoard. Press the "Cheat Sheet" tab when editing your script. It will display all possible control commands for each control in your project. You can click on one of the ControlCommand examples and it will add it to your code for you
You're singing the micro soft blues to the choir my friend. And no, I wasn't expecting new ez bits. I figured I'd just give you a friendly jab. It is good to know when I can start to expect some. I've just been checking every day or two, or two or three times a day, something like that.
Speaking of ez bits, I've made a few and uploaded them, I noticed when I got my laptop and installed everything I went to the library to download ez bits and all of mine downloaded onto my machine. Which was super cool for me. Are those available to everyone or is it like having a non public project on the cloud?
We have had a lot of EZ-Bit's uploaded, but waiting on some things before we can start the certification process. We hired a 3D Printing manager who will be printing all EZ-Bits that are uploaded. He starts July 1st.
The solidworks will be starting at the same time. He will be producing some pretty awesome stuff. We're going to have dalek's and more robots and a Wall-e and more!
We have a programmer starting shortly to work on the website also. He will be implementing our 3D Printing Community. This will allow you to send files to people on our community to have them printed. We're also looking at printing internally ourself. It may happen - we're not entirely sure if that's a responsibility we want to take.
Yeah, manufacturing is entirely separate business at the end of the day. I know from personal experience not to spread yourself too thin.
I have uploaded a few. Mostly the stl's you gave us. I just turned them into ez bits so I could have the individual pieces to experiment with. I did however make a pretty accurate placeholder for the disc attachment that came with the servos in my ez complete. Ez bits inspired me to finally sit down and learn how do at least something in 3d software. I had an issue with the sketchup to stl plug in so I had to figure out 123d design
Thanks again for your special touch DJ. I look forward to bugging you for most of the rest of our lives.