Help and FAQ

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##Frequently asked Questions##

###Can I buy a Piccolo kit?###

The Piccolo project has been an ongoing open-source collaboration to design a simple and accessible CNC platform that works well as a kit, and we have been producing small batches of kits for workshops and conferences.

Our aim hasn’t been to commercialise Piccolo by selling kits but we would love to see Piccolo more readily available to anybody who wants one. If your company is interested in producing and selling Piccolo kits to help achieve this, please feel free to get in touch.

The Piccolo hardware designs are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Anybody is welcome to produce their own batches of Piccolo kits for non-commercial purposes, such as classroom workshops.

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##Piccolo Problems##

###Controllo doesn’t seem to communicate to Piccolo###

Check the serial port. By default controllo selects the last port on the list:

myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[Serial.list().length -1], 115200);

When you start controllo, it will print a list of ports to the processing console:

[0] "COM3"
[1] "COM35"

The port for Piccolo should be something like COM35, COM15 or COM16 on windows, and dev/tty.usbmodem on a mac. If you see this on the list try changing the selected port index to match:

myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[1], 115200);

On windows, you can also confirm the serial port number by having a look at “Ports” in the Device Manager.

For more help with selecting the right ports have a look at the getting started pages on Arduino.cc - http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage

Further help is also available in the Processing wiki - http://wiki.processing.org/w/Serial_Issues