Help

Assembled Eggbot and seems doa...
Installed Driver for Windows XP
Installed software as per sequence

Nothing happening...

Lights on ebb board blinking
Driver looks like it is installed in windows (ref to ebb in driver info on com5 usb)

Little servo seems to have power cannot move easily with fingers

No motion from other servos, no resistance to movement either.

Tried adjusting current pot, no change in anything

No response from any commands in inkscape other than a 1/2 second flash of some sort of confirm screen

Help!

Mark F in Wisconsin

If the servo is powered up and cannot move, then it's definitely alive to some extent. That suggests that the board is getting power. Blinking LEDs indicate that the processor is alive and working. That you don't get an error message suggests that the USB connection is working, and that the processor is responding to it correctly. Only, the motors aren't responding. Not really DOA... more like a coma.

Now, there are a number of circumstances under which I'd expect this behavior exactly-- including trying to plot an empty page, or one without vector art to be drawn. Can you please elaborate about what tests you've performed, and what you're actually seeing?

Adding an update here, since this issue was resolved on the mailing list.

Turns out that the Eggbot hardware was all okay, but there was a problem (as yet unknown) with Inkscape itself on the computer, preventing any of the extensions from executing properly. The problem was worked around by backdating Inkscape to 0.47, based on a hunch that it was a related bug to the one here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/643272