Gene sent me the first camera stand and bracket today. I am actually to the point now where I have enough mechanical items to start doing some more bean testing, but as I feared, I have now become the bottleneck. I have decided Flask and Python are probably not the tools I want to use for the machine interface server, so I am switching over to Node.js. I am trying out the Visual Studio Code IDE to develop the app. So far (which is not very far), I am very impressed with it all and think it will make the whole enterprise easier to develop, deploy, maintain and extend. I might change my mind after I get a little deeper, but so far so good.
Thanks Gene!
Gene Conrad
You are doing all the heavy lifting right now, Ken! I plan to start working on the prototype slide soon – I hope….
All good! Excited and not in a hurry. I am using this as a learning project (obviously) so there is no hurry at all. I actually probably just set myself back by a month by switching to Node.js.