onEnterFrame() is called at the framerate of your SWF and acts like a 'clock tick' and will repeatidly call your setInterval timer. BTW, a stop(); simply stops...
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fduncanstewart@...
thefinalists
Jan 11, 2007 12:19 pm
All right -- someone still uses Teleo! ; ) So if onEnterFrame() is called at your movie's framerate, 24 or 12 or whathaveyou, then a counter that is...
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vectorartist
Jan 11, 2007 6:10 pm
Hello Makingthings Group Members, I have a few questions: • Does anyone have any Flash examples for Make Controller stepper motor control? • I have found...
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hamlynart
Jan 11, 2007 6:58 pm
How do I use the analogue in to jump to another frame in the scene? Is there any example code I could use? Thanks in advance Jim...
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mrigneous
Jan 11, 2007 7:29 pm
Rick, I have been having some luck with steppers from old inkjet printers. They vary in their specifications, but most of the ones I have found worked directly...
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vectorartist
Jan 11, 2007 10:13 pm
Hello Jak, Thank you for the reply. I actually have harvested several steppers from printers and scanners and old disk drives already, but what I am looking...
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vectorartist
Jan 12, 2007 4:25 am
Hello Making Things. I have been successfully controlling servos with the Make Controller (both from mc helper and flash), so I made my first attempt at...
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mrigneous
Jan 12, 2007 5:15 pm
Rick, I cannot help you with the spec (unfortunately), but here is another suggestion for high powered steppers. The controller is already generating the...
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Liam Staskawicz
liamstaskawicz
Jan 12, 2007 6:50 pm
Hey Rick - this probably means you're not using a new enough version of the firmware (Heavy) on the Make Controller, as the stepper controls have only been...
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Liam Staskawicz
liamstaskawicz
Jan 12, 2007 9:31 pm
Hey Rick - I haven't played around too much with stepper motors and Flash quite yet, so that's probably the main reason there's not much sample code! If you...
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bobby cossum
nbronski
Jan 16, 2007 3:04 am
this http://www.acroname.com/robotics/info/ideas/stacking/stacking.html suggests that the h-bridge chips used on the make application board can be stacked to...
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Don Day
don@...
Jan 16, 2007 6:22 am
Multiple chips will increase current capacity, but not quite linearly, unless the chips are perfectly matched, and they never are. The lower resistance switch...
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Don Day
don@...
Jan 16, 2007 6:27 am
I see that Acroname really means "stacking"; literally, which makes a switch time fault less likely, though I would not try for zero off time. And the added...
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vectorartist
Jan 20, 2007 12:36 am
I have been pretty busy over the last week and haven't been able to focus much attention to my make controller since the issue but I have taken the time to...
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vectorartist
Jan 22, 2007 2:56 am
I recently upgraded the firmware to gain stepper motor functionality (which I am also having issues with), but seemed to have lost analog input capabilities. ...
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alberto
nootrope
Jan 22, 2007 3:23 am
Anyone at MT (or anywhere else) have any experience with steppers and the Make Controller? I've been following Rick's pleas for help with stepper motor control...
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Liam Staskawicz
liamstaskawicz
Jan 22, 2007 4:49 pm
Hi there - essentially the situation is this: the stepper motor subsystem was introduced in firmware v 1.10.xx, and it relies on a high resolution timer that...
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patricktk
Feb 1, 2007 5:30 am
jak, could you possibly share your method of connecting those kinds of steppers to the controller? i just pulled a couple epson inkjet steppers i'd like to...
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mrigneous
Feb 1, 2007 2:08 pm
Pat, It all depends on the motor! In the specific case I was talking about I had a four wire bipolar. These are common, and the simplest to figure out. Start...
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Ryan DeWitt
ryanrdu
Feb 3, 2007 10:22 pm
Hi. I'm new to MT. I have my MT Controller blinking green/red power however I having trouble communicating through the to the IP "192.168.0.200". MCHelper...
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kapoff
kapoffeli
Feb 5, 2007 7:23 pm
Hi. Can an "introductory module" be programmed to work as a standalone unit, or does it need to be connected to a computer all the time? Thanks A.E....
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Liam Staskawicz
liamstaskawicz
Feb 6, 2007 3:23 pm
Hi there - the Intro Module needs to be connected to the computer all the time. If you need a standalone unit, the Make Controller Kit offers this...
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Peter Tilg
tilgino
Feb 7, 2007 1:23 pm
hi, i'm looking for an easy way to controll this motor showing at the link below... or any similar on advise ...
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Peter Tilg
tilgino
Feb 7, 2007 1:31 pm
hi, i'm looking for an easy way to controll this motor showing at the link below... or any similar on advise ...
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Reynaldo
reynaldoruiz
Feb 7, 2007 9:47 pm
You need to use a H-Bridge to connect a DC motor to makecontroller....
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sebastianlexer
Feb 8, 2007 12:53 pm
SOS - could someone email me the installer for Teleo incl. objects for Max/MSP for the teleo intro and analog in for Intel Mac. I cannot get to the...
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Pieter Coussement
sadcba
Feb 8, 2007 12:58 pm
are there intel teleothingies? I have had a world of trouble getting everything back to a ppc in order to get an installation working but makingthings told me...
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sebastianlexer
Feb 8, 2007 4:47 pm
Oh, that's even worse! I thought I had seen them a few days ago, unfortunately i didn't download what I thought to be the UB versions. So I might have been ...
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sebastianlexer
Feb 8, 2007 8:00 pm
actually there is an intel version ... I just checked the cached site in google ...
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Carlos Hinojosa
carloseus3
Feb 12, 2007 3:56 am
Hi. I'm having trouble connecting a power adaptor to the Make controller. I have a 12v dc 1500MA power adaptor that I ordered from Jameco. It came shipped with...
