Anyhow, pos2... is for the fact the KiCad outputs .pos (position) files. Feel free to collaborate where ever, hopefully no one forces you to sign up for GitHub. As for future updates, I can push where ever is most useful. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- 2017 Hackaday Prize Entry Any Colored Button <https://hackaday.io/project/19880-any-colored-button> Step 1. Press Button Step 2. ***startupy hand waving*** Step 3. Profit! Likes = Votes. Votes = $1s. $1s = Profits. Step 2 = Vote for Any Colored Button <https://hackaday.io/project/19880-any-colored-button>. On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:26 PM, Jake &lt;jake(a)spaz.org&gt; wrote: Morgan, i am confused, what's the difference between pcb2charmhigh and > pos2charmhigh? > > I have pcb2charmhigh which i got from github here: > https://gitlab.com/morganrallen/pcb2charmhigh.git/ > > i can't find the source to pos2charmhigh because gitlab doesn't seem to > allow > me to view the source, if it's even there, without creating a login... > which I > don't want to do, partially because they're trying to force me to. > > Anyway, I forked pcb2charmhigh to a sudoroom repository here: > https://github.com/sudoroom/pcb2charmhigh > > so that I and Miloh and others can collaborate on it. > > Will you be updating the pcb2charmhigh repo on gitlab? At least I can > pull from there. > > thank you, > -jake > > On Sun, 9 Apr 2017, Morgan Allen wrote: > > I worked on a thing today. > >> https://www.npmjs.com/package/pos2charmhigh >> >> (roughly) converts KiCAD .pos files to something that resembles the >> Charmhigh CSV file. I haven't tested the output yet. >> >> Jake, when you did your first test run did you run into any issues with >> negative X/Y coords? When I was trying to set a component local [ 0, 0 ] >> was about 1.5" right of the actual components. I could jog it into place >> once with no problem. Then I'd get an error about a negative position. I >> might make it back later tonight to do some more testing. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> -------------- >> 2017 Hackaday Prize Entry >> Any Colored Button <https://hackaday.io/project/1 >> 9880-any-colored-button> >> >> Step 1. Press Button >> Step 2. ***startupy hand waving*** >> Step 3. Profit! >> >> Likes = Votes. Votes = $1s. $1s = Profits. >> >> Step 2 = Vote for Any Colored Button >> <https://hackaday.io/project/19880-any-colored-button>. >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Jake &lt;jake(a)spaz.org&gt; wrote: >> >> the machine menu is entirely in english. >> >>> >>> awesome job translating! >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, miloh wrote: >>> >>> are there english menu options? >>> >>> >>>> used google translate to get some menu image translations in case >>>> there aren't any. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:42 PM, miloh &lt;froggytoad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>>> >>>> chrome browser reads the unicode chinese characters in your text file. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/pnp/placeonepart.txt >>>>> >>>>> google translate makes a lot of sense with these strings. >>>>> the pinyin is useful for cafl speakers who dont read as much hanyu to >>>>> sound out everything >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> %,原点偏移,X,Y, >>>>> %,Yuándiǎn piān yí,X,Y, >>>>> %,origin offset,X,Y >>>>> >>>>> %,料栈偏移,料栈号,X,Y,进给量,注释 >>>>> %, Liào zhàn piān yí, liào zhàn hào,X,Y, jìn jǐ liàng, zhùshì >>>>> %, Material stack offset, material stack number, X, Y, feed, comment >>>>> >>>>> this might befor arrays. >>>>> >>>>> %,拼板1,X,Y, >>>>> %, Pīn bǎn 1,X,Y, >>>>> %, Puzzle 1, X, Y, >>>>> >>>>> you had me at 'puzzle' >>>>> >>>>> %,贴头号,料栈号,X,Y,角度,高度,跳过,速度,说明,注释 >>>>> %, Tiē tóuhào, liào zhàn hào,X,Y, jiǎodù, gāodù, tiàoguò, sùdù, >>>>> shuōmíng, zhùshì >>>>> %, Sticker number, material number, X, Y, angle, height, skip, speed, >>>>> description, comment >>>>> >>>>> good bits here >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Jake &lt;jake(a)spaz.org&gt; wrote: >>>>> >>>>> last night i programmed the pick&place machine to place a capacitor >>>>> >>>>>> from >>>>>> material slot 3 onto this board, rotating 90 degrees in the process, >>>>>> and >>>>>> placing it perfectly. >>>>>> >>>>>> here's the video: >>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuNQKG_SQ30 >>>>>> >>>>>> anyway, i made the machine save the program to a .csv file which it >>>>>> named >>>>>> new1.csv and then i copied it and inserted comments for us to >>>>>> discuss, >>>>>> each >>>>>> delineated by a # sign. Note that I do not expect the machine to >>>>>> allow >>>>>> comments in .csv files it's given, but i wanted to show where my >>>>>> comments >>>>>> were. >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't know what the upper-ASCII encoding is, but it's surely >>>>>> chinese, >>>>>> so >>>>>> if >>>>>> anyone can figure out how to convert and translate it that might >>>>>> help >>>>>> us. >>>>>> Also >>>>>> the manual is in Chinese so lets translate that too. >>>>>> anyway, i made the machine save the program to a .csv file which it >>>>>> named >>>>>> new1.csv and then i copied it and inserted comments for us to >>>>>> discuss, >>>>>> each >>>>>> delineated by a # sign. Note that I do not expect the machine to >>>>>> allow >>>>>> comments in .csv files it's given, but i wanted to show where my >>>>>> comments >>>>>> were. >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't know what the upper-ASCII encoding is, but it's surely >>>>>> chinese, >>>>>> so >>>>>> if >>>>>> anyone can figure out how to convert and translate it that might >>>>>> help >>>>>> us. >>>>>> Also >>>>>> the original manual is in Chinese in a .rar file, although there >>>>>> seems >>>>>> to be >>>>>> a >>>>>> .PDF version of it in english, are they the same? >>>>>> >>>>>> anyway here's the files: >>>>>> http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/pnp/ >>>>>> >>>>>> of course the next step is to add more steps to the program at the >>>>>> machine, >>>>>> and >>>>>> tell it to make multiple boards, so that we can suss out what those >>>>>> other >>>>>> lines >>>>>> are for. although to be honest i haven't read the manual yet and >>>>>> maybe >>>>>> it's >>>>>> all explained in there. >>>>>> >>>>>> -jake >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>