This Inkscape extension helps you to use the EggDuino based EggBot from inside Inkscape.
You have to put these two directories inside your ~/.config/inkscape folder.
curl -L https://github.com/section77/eggbot_extension/archive/1.1.tar.gz | tar -xz
mkdir -p ~/.config/inkscape
cp -r eggbot_extension-1.1/templates ~/.config/inkscape
cp -r eggbot_extension-1.1/extensions ~/.config/inkscape- Inkscape (obviously)
- python
- python-serial
On Debian or Debian-based distributions (Ubuntu, Mint) use apt-get/aptitude/apt, for example
sudo apt-get install inkscape python python-serial
On most GNU/Linux distributions you have to be member of the group dialout to use serial ports.
On Debian/Ubuntu/Mint you can add yourself to the dialout group with
sudo addgroup $USER dialout
You need to logout/logon or reboot to activate the change.
You aren't able to connect to your EggDuino? Try this:
Disconnect your board from your PC and execute
sudo dmesg -w
and plugin your Board. You should see something like
[ 4285.923992] usb 3-6: new full-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[ 4286.065120] usb 3-6: New USB device found, idVendor=1a86, idProduct=7523
[ 4286.065123] usb 3-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 4286.065124] usb 3-6: Product: USB2.0-Serial
[ 4286.065746] ch341 3-6:1.0: ch341-uart converter detected
[ 4286.066380] usb 3-6: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0
The important pieces you can extract from the above: Your arduino clone (ch341-uart converter)
is now available as /dev/ttyUSB0. You can now check the rights which are needed to access this device:
$ ls -la /dev/ttyUSB0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Mär 6 08:59 /dev/ttyUSB0
So you need to be root or are member of the group dialout. Are we?
$ groups
dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev lpadmin scanner bluetooth libvirt sbuild libvirt-qemu
Be sure the output of groups includes the group dialout as it does above.
Then start inkscape, select Erweiterungen/Extensions - EggBot - EggBot Control. On the Manual tab you can check the
individual commands like pen up/down.
You have to unpack the zip file from https://github.com/section77/eggbot_extension/archive/1.1.zip and copy the templates and extensions folders to the inkscape/share folder which is typically located at C:\programme\inkscape\share
- Eggduino Firmware
- Eggbot77 Wiki (in german)