Amazing...

when are we going to make such projects with b4r??

Except for the cnc, they are doable with b4r

I have done similar things, but I never have used b4r. I use BASCOM-AVR which is very similar and has been around since the mid 90s. As far as a CNC, Why wouldn't it be doable? One of the projects I had done was slightly more simple, but still complex and that was a brushless-DC ECM motor controller. Not exactly easy but doable in BASIC. I did this as a retrofit controller/driver for the one that failed in my washing machine (common problem on new stator-style machines). Then I adapted it to the frequency pulse modulation used in GE fridges with Embraco brushless ECM compressors. Those "gray boxes" drop like flies on those things.

Speaking of CNC, I maintain one at work which is now a 20+ year old machine with the manufacturer long gone, support long gone and I have done enough patch work with an AVR to keep that thing running surprisingly. uses a proprietary motion control card with tons of Altera CPLDs. the AVR serves a simple task by telling the motion controller where home is as well as controlling the motor brakes. (the original PCB that did this died) so I had to replicated its function.

Then the servo amplifier died and I had to fix that. luckily it was just leaking capacitors in one of the 5V switching regulator circuits cutting the supply to the logic ICs.

The most current implementation of arduino based cnc is based on a grbl interpreter "burnt" into the arduino. Such interpreter takes up almost all available memory as well of the use of interrupts for the end-stops and special logic for simultaneous control of more than one step motor...
For all the above, creating a b4r based grbl interpreter would be almost impossible.

Sorry if I must to be too much serious, as always; it is my nature, you know.

1) I would be happy enough I were be able to create the graphic animation at the beginning of the video;
2) number 5) robotic arm: FIFO? A not so smart robot;
3) number 2) line follower: I had that stuff when I was 5 years old!




Less serious:
4) "drawing robots": you must have a drawing already done, the two implementations make a copy; can this be useful?
5) number 10) solar tracker: this is very useful (but I think there is already something like that).

LucaMs said:

Sorry if I (must) be too much serious

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Thanks for the joke!

All of those project are quite easy to reproduce, it only requires a lot of spare time. Except for the data glass, which I will have a closer look, they are all useless "cool" gadgets.

Cableguy said:

The most current implementation of arduino based cnc is based on a grbl interpreter "burnt" into the arduino. Such interpreter takes up almost all available memory as well of the use of interrupts for the end-stops and special logic for simultaneous control of more than one step motor...
For all the above, creating a b4r based grbl interpreter would be almost impossible.

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Ah.. that makes sense, so its a limitation of the microcontroller itself as far as RAM and flash memory. Speaking of which, I think the craziest thing I saw was a guy had an ATmega128 doing RSA512 and 3DES all in Assembly, and this was a decade or so ago. Need to find that code I have it buried somewhere, I thought it was impressive at the time. I could never do anything like that. lol.