Callooh
- "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
- Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
- O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
- He chortled in his joy.
Callooh is a free hardware CNC router project, intending to be comparable to the Roland Modela in accuracy and ability, but far cheaper and have a larger working area. It's just one of a number of potential "Modela killers", but, well... why not?
The idea came up in New York in early February of 2008 and the first technical designs were ready in March. So far nobody has built a working example of this, but a lot of material has been written.
Contributors
- Arnar Mar Sigurðsson - hardware design, electronics
- Smári McCarthy - controller software, GTP language
- Mel Chua - firmware
- Marcin Jakubowski - hardware design, open enterprise model, fabrication of turnkey Calloohs
Discussion Log
See discussion page.
Emulator / Controller
GTP
Callooh uses GTP. See that page for more information.
Installation instructions
Here we have the source code for the emulator part of the XYZ router table. This is actually very outdated and misleading. You're better off just not doing anything than doing this:
You can download the latest source at http://smari.yaxic.org/router.tar.gz
You'll need to install the following as prerequisites:
- python
- pygame
- pyOpenGL
On Mel's computer:
wget http://smari.yaxic.org/router.tar.gz gunzip router.tar.gz tar -xvf router.tar sudo apt-get install python-pygame sudo easy_install PyOpenGL cd router/src/controller python emulator.py testfiles/test.gtp