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I’d suggest manually running the driver installer (UBW Driver Installer), available separately with the 2.7.1 release.
You might also try a different USB cable, just in case.Can you please say which version of the EggBot software you are using?
What site is that?
Please try the current release 2.7.1, or the pre-release version 2.8.0. (Note that the 2.8.0 requires manual installation.)
@gmhoovler: Can you please say exactly what software package you are trying to install?
The script is in private beta right now. Please contact customer service.
It’s an undocumented feature– you’ll need to look through the firmware to see how that works. There isn’t a whole lot of storage space there, but enough for a couple of small files.
The USB port on the EBB is a “USB device” port, not a “USB host” port– that is, it acts like the port on a printer, not the port on a computer. To hook up to an SD card, you’ll need something (a computer– whether tiny or full size) to play the host role.After following up by e-mail, it turns out that this was _not_ actually an AxiDraw V2, but a poorly made knock-off. This level of “performance” is typical for those machines– we’ve seen it now several times.
To do that, you would actually need to work at a deeper level, and alter the programming of the EBB itself, since it presently does not have any facility to work from an off-board stored file. It is certainly possible to reprogram the EBB– its source code is available, as are compilers.
The EBB does have the facility to work from a file stored in its onboard memory — there are actually two files stored there — but it does not have the ability to connect directly to an SD card. And, the computer is not necessarily something that can’t be brought along with you. For example, a Raspberry Pi could easily fit in your pocket.This appears to be quite broken– like something is physically loose on the machine. See if you can identify what the cause is, in case it is something that you might be able to screw down. If not, please contact customer service directly so that we can get this back for repair.
Which model of AxiDraw?
I presume by “machine language” in this case that you mean the set of serial commands that are sent to the AxiDraw over USB. You could potentially modify the script to save a copy of each command sent to a file, but that does require that you note each point where communication is sent. Serial communication is handled through the ebb_serial.py script, so the good news is that you should only need to modify that one file in order to do so.
I should note that the script is to some degree interactive; checking to make sure that it is connected to the right device and to make sure that each command was sent successfully. We have not tested the method of just sending a set of commands, which is what you would be doing if you are just re-sending a list.
I might be guessing at your intentions here, but if your end goal is to be able to just print the same file many times, then you might prefer to start with a command-line script that prints your SVG file from outside of Inkscape. We do have a script like this, available to AxiDraw users in private beta– please let us know if you would like to try that.
If you are looking for the serial command set itself, you can find it here:
http://evil-mad.github.io/EggBot/ebb.htmlSaw this page today, which shows off counterfeit FTDI chips on an adapter that looks just like yours: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2017/03/fixing-fake-ftdi-ft232rl-adapters-ssop.html
Hard to say for sure. An issue with the Peggy (for example an incomplete solder joint or backwards component somewhere) can sometimes create a programming error, even when everything else is working properly.
Did your adapter come with any documentation about which pin is which? Not every FTDI adapter has the pins in the same order, so the first thing to check would be to make sure that your device has a 1:1 match between its pin order and that of the standard FTDI cable.Second, at $3.30 (about what it would cost us to buy the chip and connectors in large quantity — without pcb or assembly or margin), there’s more than a little chance that this is a counterfeit FTDI chip– FTDI has a long-running cold war with the counterfeit manufacturers, and has various ways to detect and disable devices like this from within the driver.I’ve added a feature to support this (“documentation layers”) in the newest revision of the AxiDraw software. It’s available for manual installation from our github repository, and you can read about it here: http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/AxiDraw_Layer_Control
