More and more people are asking where to buy the miniE shield. Unfortunately there is no place to buy them at the moment but this may change in the near future. I am wondering how many of you would like to have a nice, high quality shield for placing all the required components (like the Easydriver, required resistors, jacks, …) for a reasonable price (same as a generic Arduino proto-shield but designed especially to serve miniE’s requirements). You can leave your vote in the sidebar.
Thanks!
Hej, I fixed some bugs and changed the ramping algorithm – ramping is now much smoother – especially when doing very few steps.
I fixed a little but annoying bug in the menu navigation. In some cases one was not able to move away from the main status screen.
Together with version 0.11 of the miniE software, a new hardware version of the miniE shield was committed. Version 1.2 of the shield introduces a complete rearrangement of the components to avoid contact between the components of the shield and the Arduino as well as with the display shield.
A new version of miniE is out. The version 0.10 makes the code compatible with the updated Arduino SDK 1.0 and includes some other tweaks and optimisations. Please remember to update the RTClib library in your Arduino environment. Together with the version miniE version 0.10 a new documentation was uploaded. Have fun
I finished the documentation for the current version:
Hello,
this website is all about the miniEngine, called miniE. Here I am going to present the progress of the project. I am developing this software since 3 months now and reached version 0.9 with a lot of help from the guys at www.openmoco.org.
But let us talk a little bit about what miniE is…
miniE is an open-source engine sketch to provide control over a single stepper motor and camera, using an Arduino and DFRobot LCD Keypad shield. It is a minimalist design providing all the necessary features to do shoot-move-shoot or continuous timelapse with a built-in UI. The 1st version of this code was heavily inspired by the openMoCo Engine by C.A. Church and is basically based on it. Thank you for your great work and help!
The project can be downloaded from the SourceForge repository or directly as a GNU tarball.
The aim of the system is to be flexible. For this lightweight engine, full system control should be possible out in the field without extra hardware. The GUI code was implemented as customizable and modular as possible.
Main features