Code and plans for my polargraph drawing machine.

The main website for this project is at http://www.polargraph.co.uk/, but you might read the wiki here if you are about to build, or setup your own polargraph machine.

Read the Polargraph wiki if you want to find out more, or have a peep at this instructable I've made that does it step-by-step.

This is a simple machine, physically, which is why it works so well: A pen hangs in between two pieces of cord, and each cord is driven by a motor.

An arduino with an adafruit motorshield controls two motors. This is loaded with software from the svn/embedded/trunk repository folder. This is essentially, a server.

The machine is controlled with a Processing sketch that runs on a host PC. This sketch is under the svn/application/trunk repo folder. This code must run the whole time that the machine is drawing.

The physical configuration of the machine, and the image that it's working on is defined in a properties file that is created in your Processing sketch folder.

Incremental updates will be found in the code repository, but major updates will get a precompiled binary version. Given the libraries that are required, these are easier to use but might not be bang up to date. How to build the software, and links to the recent versions. There is no compiled version of the server (embedded, firmware) code.