dcuartielles / embryo

State machine for EIT Manufacturing's EMBRYO educational metal press machine.

embryo

Description

Step by step construction of a state machine for EIT Manufacturing's EMBRYO educational metal press machine.

Installation

First Method

1. Navigate to the Releases page.
2. Download the latest release.
3. Extract the zip file in your Arduino's Sketchbook
4. In the Arduino IDE, navigate to File > Sketchbook > EMBRYO-X.Y.Z

Features

• Official dependencies

  Code examples depend on the official EduIntro library.

• Easy to use

  It is simple, basic and very easy to understand. Just import the code collection in your Sketchbook and try out the different examples.

• Complete package for the EMBRYO machine

  Learn how to use the machine from scratch and step by step build a reliable state machine that will give you access to all of its capabilities.

• Intuitive syntax

  The code has a simple and intuitive syntax to handle variables and functions.

• Give back

  EMBRYO is free for everyone. Everyone can download and use it in their projects, assignments or anywhere for free.

Components and functions

This is an example of how code can be built iteratively around a certain machine but slowly adding improvements to the core software. Here a list of components of the code

• Architecture

  Includes information about the system itself, the pinouts to the connected sensors and actuators, and constructs to navigate through them

• Comm Functions

  Functions dedicated to send and receive informaiton via Serial port

• Data Functions

  Handling of the information from sensors, arranging into easy to compare arrays, etc

• States

  Definitions of names of states to make the code easier to read

General code structure

There are many examples implemented in this repository. Below are shown some of the examples.

• 03 Machine Status Serial Control

  In this example, the machine offers a bi-directional communication port to the computer for you to send commands to it and collect information in real time. The main loop responds to the structure:

void loop() {
  // Check the inputs
  readInputs();

  // Serial terminal
  serialCheck();

  // Print out the inputs if there is an event
  if (inputEvent()) {
    printInputs();
  }

  // Copy arrays of inputs to check state changes
  copyInputs();
}

Versions

v0.5 (Current Stable version)

Codename: Haparanda

September, 2021

• Code ready for first release
• Code needs to be cleaned, have to remove unused variables

April, 2021

• Initial release of examples

Contributing

If you want to contribute to this project:

• Report bugs and errors
• Ask for enhancements
• Create issues and pull requests
• Tell others about this code
• Contribute new protocols

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Credits

Created and maintained by D. Cuartielles, Malmo, 2021

Based on previous work by:

• F. Troya, Malmo, 2020
• Arduino community

Current stable version

number: v0.0.1

codename: Jokkmokk

License

This library is licensed under GPLv3.