Project of the Month

[jason]

Read the competition rules here

Deadline:
1st of each month

Previous winners:

• March 2010: BDring for his XMOS CNC Laser Engraver Controller.

• April 2010: Berni for his WAV audio player.

• May 2010: F_Petrini for his 5x5x5 LED cube.

• June 2010: Wibauxl for his Xbase project.

• July 2010: F_Petrini for his "Swarm Light" - Awesome LED cubes using XMOS processors project.

• August 2010: Yzoer for his "VDP-1" - Tile and sprite based Video Display Processor.

• September 2010: Bianco for his Nokia 6100 display driver project.

• October 2010: Ruben for his XMOS BIT Scheme / XBee Project.

• November 2010: TonyD for his XArduino Project.

• December 2010: BSmithyMan for his Simple Servo Control.

• January 2011: None as Jason away

• February 2011: Goncalo for his XMOS & iPhone UGV.

• March 2011: BEBDigitalAudio for his Socket based TCP/UDP network stack (XSOCKETS).

• April 2011: RichDevX for his Real-time IR Tracking.

• May 2011: ALeonard for her Fast Optic Flow Sensor.

• June 2011: japus for his Multicore embedded robot.

• July 2011: tomcarter259 for his Quad XC-1As.

• August 2011 - no projects!

• September 2011 - no projects!

• October 2011 - mjcross for his 16 bit temperature sensor using ADT7410

• November 2011 - Bianco for his Optopus 1

• December 2011 - Lele for his General purpose parser

• January 2012 - no projects!

• February 2012 - Stef for his DSD audio over USB

[bdring]

My first XMOS project is starting show some decent results. I thought I would nominate myself for "project of the month".

My project is a Laser Engraver Controller. It is a nice fit for the XMOS. This type of controller is almost always done with a high end FPGA or DSP. XMOS is a good replacement option for those devices and is ideal for an open source project because of the low cost of entry and the familiar C like developement language.

The project is detailed on this web site.

http://www.buildlog.net/cnc_laser/xmos_controller.html

The laser itself is also an open source design detailed here.

http://www.buildlog.net/cnc_laser/index.html

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[Berni]

Wow that is a cool project. I wanted to build a CNC and a laser but i never got to figuring out the mechanics.

You may want to look at the XC-2 board and use the onboard ethernet right on that. Since controlling those steppers and PWM is only a fraction of what the xmos chip is capable of.

[jason]

This is indeed very cool! You should create a project page on here too and link to it, as I never even knew of this sites existence until now! Also it needs to be a project on here to be suitable for Proj of the month and the more photos/videos of it in action the better. Great work though! Do you have any videos of it in action?

[bdring]

Project has been posted.

There is a link to the code at GitHub. I will add the PC side GUI controller source code soon.

Berni...I like the idea of the Ethernet and the board looks very "shield friendly", but the cost is a bit high. The I/O bandwidth requirement is quite low, so a USB/Serial is fine.

A video has been added of the laser engraving the XMOS logo into a piece of granite.
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[jason]

This is brilliant!

[TonyD]

bdring awesome project, thanks for posting the video.

@Jason it gets my vote :D

[jason]

*makes note of vote

[jason]

Looks like it has made its way on to hackaday too:

http://hackaday.com/2010/01/27/building ... -engraver/

[TonyD]

@Jason

When is the winner for the project of the month going to be announced?