Chilipeppr
Chilipeppr represents a modern way to do CNC software control for the TinyG motion controller.
- 3D Viewer
- Gcode Sender
- TinyG internal stats viewer including planner buffer
- Flow control via planner buffer
- Serial port JSON server that runs on your Windows, Mac, Linux, or Raspberry PI
- Fork any widget or entire workspace to modify/add your own via JSFiddle
All open source. Have fun.
The first thing you need to get chilipeppr working with TinyG is a Serial Port JSON Server or AKA SPJS. This is just a fancy way of saying you need a program running on your local machine that translates serial communications with TinyG to the websocket format. You can also use SPJS over the network, however we will cover that in the Advanced Chilipeppr Usage of this document. Currently, there are Windows, OSX, Raspberrypi and BBB versions of this agent available for download here. Once you have downloaded and ran SPJS we are ready to move on.
Go ahead and load up http://chilipeppr.com/tinyg in your browser. This will bring up the official TinyG workspace for the chilipeppr interface.
##Sending Files
Video walkthrough of the ChiliPeppr Hardware Fiddle - TinyG Workspace.
##Forking Chilipeppr
- Step 1. Pick a widget that you want to modify. Pick "Fork" from the upper right menu of the widget. Save your widget in JSFiddle and note the new URL.
- Step 2. Fork the workspace by choosing "Fork" from upper right menu of the workspace title area. Modify it to point to your new forked widget from Step 1. You'll have to look around inside the code and find where the chilipeppr.load() methods are and change the URL from the old widget to the new one.
- Step 3. Fork the boot Javascript by choosing "Fork Boot Javascript" from upper-most right menu in ChiliPeppr (just to the right of your login name). You must be logged in to do this step. Pick a new URL for your workspace. Modify the sample boot Javascript to point to your workspace that you created in Step 2.
- Done. You should now be able to view your newly forked workspace.
Video Tutorial of Creating a Hello World Fork
##Offline Chilipeppr For those of you who want to run ChiliPeppr offline, here are some strategy ideas to achieve this. ChiliPeppr is dynamically pulling all of the widgets/elements from JSFiddle's or other code sources across the Internet. For instance, the 3D Viewer pulls roughly 10 different Javascript files from different CDN networks. To create an offline version you would have to pull down locally each Javascript file and each JSFiddle and perhaps host your own web server. You would have to scan through all of the code and repoint the Javascript files to your local server. This can be achieved, but would just require somebody to write a script that did all of the redirecting.
- You could visit ChiliPeppr.com and load the workspace and then disconnect from the Internet. As long as you never reload you should be ok. It is likely you will need to reload at some point, so this is a short-lived solution.
- You could setup a local proxy on your computer using Charles. http://www.charlesproxy.com/. You could then load the workspace from ChiliPeppr.com, open the developer console, and copy the HTML content of the DOM. You would have to setup a web server on your localhost and serve up that page from http://localhost. Then you'd have to watch your the Charles Proxy UI to see what URL's are being requested by your browser and where they fail. Then go retrieve that file manually and make a local copy. Then create a mapping for that file in Charles Proxy. After working through all dependencies you should be good to go.
- ChiliPeppr uses Require.js to load all Javascript files so you could create a remapping inside the app.js or require.js file that is used as part of ChiliPeppr. You would overload the chilipeppr.load command as well as the require.js require() method.