**** We're currently in the Alpha phase and have no official releases yet. Check back soon for updates. If you're a hardcore tester, you can follow the roadmap through the issue queue and the milestones page. ****
- Using the drawing tool:
- Click and drag to draw pancake lines freehand
- Click single points to draw polygonal shapes, double-click or press ESC/Enter to complete drawing.
- Using the selection tool:
- Click the center or near a line to select it.
- Once selected, click and drag the corner handles to scale the object, or the top rotation handle to rotate it.
- Click and drag points on the line to move them, shift-click to remove, or click an area on the line without any points to add a new point.
- Click and drag the selected object anywhere else to move it to a new position.
- Export your drawing for printing:
- Your PancakeBot uses a almost readable text format for input called GCODE unique to each drawing and setup that tells your bot how to move and when to extrude batter to make your drawing.
- To generate the file you need, use the menu "File > Export for printing..." and select a location to save the file. You can then place this on your bot's SD card and print at your leisure.
More details coming soon!
Official support will eventually be found @ PancakeBot.com
Stuck on something? Submit an issue! Click the issues tab and see if someone is covering your question or problem, if not, ask away! Someone will be around to help soon.
Know how to fix a problem? Or want to add a new feature?? Submit a pull request! Just fork the repo using the button on the github homepage, and this will give you your own version of PancakeCreator. Make your change in a few commits to a new branch, then click the pull request button at the top! Talk about what changes you made and submit. A maintainer of the project will check your work, possibly ask you to fix a few more things, and then if all is well, your work will be merged into the project. It's that easy, really.
PancakeCreator uses Github's Electron application shell as a cross platform wrapper, and to create the application logic everything is written in plain JavaScript. If you know how to mess with websites, HTML, CSS or jQuery, you can bend PancakeCreator to your whim! Read on to get your own dev environment setup to start hacking.
Required for automated builds and node module install. Electron uses Node.js'
little brother fork, io.js. See iojs.org for installation for
your operating system. npm is installed along with it. If you already have
node installed, you can probably go without switching to io.js as electron
provides its own io.js implementation built in.
Though the src/index.html may somewhat render in a regular browser, you're
going to need to run it inside of Electron before it all works. After node/io.js
is installed, just run from your terminal/console
npm install -g electron-prebuilt to install Electron on your path. When
complete, just run electron -v to see the installed app version.
Various node modules require builds and may complain if you don't have the right build tools. These are great to have regardless on any OS you use.
- You'll need the free download version of Visual Studio Express 2013 which will have the command line tools required for builds.
- Install Xcode and the CLI Developer tools.
- You might be able to skip installing Xcode to get the GCC tools alone.
- This is the easiest, as most FOSS ships as source to be built on the target machines, so you shouldn't have to install anything new for this at all.
- Note there is currently no officially supported Linux release, but the app should run fine there. If there is call for support, it can be added (or submit a Pull Request!)
To get the local code running, be sure to run npm install --force from the
repo root, this will give you the third party resources needed to run. The
--force is unfortunately required to pass install of Paper.js as a node
module, even though we only use it as a clientside library, so we can ignore the
errors. See the tracking issue here.
- Once Electron prebuilt is installed, just run
electron path/to/pancakecreator, orelectron ./if you're working directory is the root of the repo. - Remember: Alt+Ctrl+I to open the debug console, Ctl+R will reload if the console is open, and a reload only reloads the contents of the window, and will not reload the application main process.
This open source project has been built with love by TechNinja, made possible though direct support from Storebound, PancakeBot, and Kickstarter Backers like you!
All code licensed under Apache v2.0