Holy smoke my Drawbot made Hacked Gadgets!
Martin_H
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Here's the write up. I guess I'm now Internet famous under the pseudonym of Martin_H.
http://hackedgadgets.com/2014/08/05/drawbot-using-parallax-propeller-microcontroller-programmed-using-propforth/comment-page-1/#comment-1852285
http://hackedgadgets.com/2014/08/05/drawbot-using-parallax-propeller-microcontroller-programmed-using-propforth/comment-page-1/#comment-1852285
Comments
Congratulations.
PropForth? It fun to see a completed project with Forth and it's always fun to see a Propeller controlled robot.
Nicely done!
Not too bad. The robot draws using turtle graphics which is form of vector graphics. Forth is a concatenative language, so you build primitives for drawing parts of the letters, then build letters out of the primitives. Drawing words becomes as easy as typing the letters at that point.
This of course assumes you already know Forth which has a bit of a steep learning curve.
I feel that the learning curve in Forth on the Propeller is well worth the trouble as it gets you deep into using anything the Propeller can do. And I prefer interactive programing to the write-compile-load cycle.
Too much to do to even look at Forth. I wish I had bought it with my old Color Computer, then I wouldn't be scared?