Before you start:

Use this program at your own risk. If your model gets broken I am out of responsibility.
Anyway, I tested it and it works :)

This program is based on umFish 4.0 by Ulrich M�ller. At this place I want thank him for his great work without
it would be impossible for me to develop one line of code that controls the plotter model.

See www.ftcomputing.de for more details and useful information.



This is the first "public" release, so be patient. I'll continue improving this software. See "Needed" section .. ;)



Requirements

- tested on Windows Xp Professional SP3
- JDK > 1.5
- umFish4.0.dll in system path. Put it into  c:\windows\system32
- a supported fischertechnik RoboInterface. I tested it with (93293) connected to USB port.
- of course the Fischertechnik Plotter / Scanner Model (30571)


Needed

Some more developers to help ... especially building Swing Gui.



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Running

... is quite simple.

1. Be sure that the interface is powered on, then connect it to your pc.
   You can test functionality using fishPanel, see http://www.ftcomputing.de/zip/umfish40.zip
   This Application doesn't check at startup time for failures.

2. After that just double click the polarfish-x.x.x.jar to start.
   If nothing happens open a cmd window and type "java -jar polarfish-x.x.x.jar"


Have fun. I'd be happy about some feedback and ideas.

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HELP

see the project page at sourceforge for details:


https://sourceforge.net/projects/polarfish/support


contact me: 

polarbaerhh@users.sourceforge.net


