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Topic: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

I am having trouble setting up my scanner

I assembled my Atlas 3D but now realize that the electronic side of this is way above my pay grade.

I have plugged it in and turned it on but I am seeing no indication that it is active. there is also 4 usb plugs on the back of the unit and the little OURLiNK thingy that I,m not sure what to do with.

I contacted Uriah and he pointed me at the SD card which I took a look at but see nothing I recognize! I did reach out to him for more help but it's been a while with no reply.

I realize that the electronic side of this is above my pay grade. I have plugged it in and turned it on but I am seeing no indication that it is active. there is also 4 usb plugs on the back of the unit and the little OURLiNK thingy that I,m not sure what to do with.

If you can get me started I would greatly appreciate it, Just think you are explaining it to someone who has no idea what he is doing you wont go far wrong

If you can get me started I would greatly appreciate it, Just think you are explaining it to someone who has no idea what he is doing you wont go far wrong.

I live about 30 miles north of Chicago and if there is anybody in this area that could help me out I would greattly appreciate it.

Thanks, John

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

No LEDs on the board flashing, or even lit up?

Did you put the SD card into the PI then power it up?

I had problems with the first part getting it to write to a USB drive, so I just plugged in an Ethernet cable connected to my network, looked up the address for it, and went to that in a browser. After that, it was easy to follow the instructions for the rest.

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

I have just reconnected the Atlas and see through one of the cracks in the enclosure some LEDs illuminated, solid not flashing.

I purchased the acrylic enclosure and the opening in the front of where the electronics is doesn't line up with the LEDs so I have partially disassembled it to rectify this. The Rasebery PI is now visible and I'm not seeing any SD card, is it on the top of this assemble? I'm sure I would have done it if it had been on the assembly instructions but maybe not. I'll look out the assembly instructions and check it out

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4 Reply by tonyno (edited by tonyno 2016-12-21 00:06:27)

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

It's on the bottom of the board towards the front where your pic is centered.

http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2014/08/raspberry-pi-b-microsd-photo-100409820-orig.jpg

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

Hi hughes5820,

Did plugging in the SD card fix the issue for you?

- Uriah

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

Although I had the step checked of on the assembly instructions I had not plugged the SD card in, the card is now in and When I power up The lights come on then the Green one flashes for a while then remains off.

Moving on to the WiFi setup And connecting to the scanner. (Mac)
I inserted the WiFi dongle in the Raspberry Pi (one of the 4 USBs in the back of scanner) and a USB flash drive into one of the other USB s on the same panel. The Lasers did not turn on or off. I tried two different flash drive with the same results.
I noticed in the Windows instructions Step 3 tells that you insert the flash drive into your PC so I tried that step on the Mac but when plugged into Mac there was no file to edit

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

Yep, that's what I ran into also, so I just plugged-in as stated above.

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

Well that sounds easy, just plug it in.
I have the SD card plugged in, the WiFi dongle Plugged in and I connected an ether net cable between the Atlas and my mac, nothing showed up, darn.
I thought about it for a while and thought I should plug the Atlas into the WiFi router, still nothing.
I've tried putting  -  Raspberry Pi Wifi Configuration - into my browser but could find nothing usable, then I tried the    http://atlas3d/   Still nothing.
I'm sure it's me being particularly dense, if you could tell me what to plug in where I would really appreciate it.

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After you connect it to your network, look for the IP address it received. I went to my router's web page for connected clients.

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

When you say "connect to my network" how do I do that exactly, ether net Atlas to Mac, ether net Atlas to Router, and how do I go to my router's web page.

I'm sorry but I don't think you realize just how little I know about the whole electronics area.

Just to confirm just how little I know in the instructions it refers to the BYOP Kit, I'm assuming that is what I received from the Kickstarter campaign

http://soliforum.com/i/?5uAyQou.jpg

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

Thank you for all your help, it turned out one of the guys I get together with on a Thursday evening to play board games is well versed in the equipment and programing and he came over yesterday and sorted my problems out, see attached!

One thing that gave me pause for thought was that only one laser was operating, I'll have to do some research, I think I was a little ambitioushttp://soliforum.com/i/?M6H6qK6.jpg with the subject but I was thrilled with just getting a result.

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

Nothing ventured nothing gained.
sometimes you do not know your limits until you stretch them . It is working and you will make it better.

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

Congrats. By default, it only uses one laser. You can change that in the settings, but I have no idea what is best as it's not covered in the docs.

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The second laser makes it easier to scan complex objects that have areas where the camera can't see a single laser line.  It's best to use a single laser for simple shapes and two lasers for more complex shapes.  If you see big patches of missing scan data in an object then you most likely need to enable both lasers.  However, the calibration becomes much more important when scanning with two lasers because the results need to be brought in sync to produce a single scan.

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

OK, great. That explains the missing patches (even on a rectangular object).

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Re: Totaly out of my depth setting up the Atlas 3D

The calibration steps are described in the below video.

http://www.murobo.com/start.html#calibration