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Can't really do much useful work without a way of talking to the end effector.

For example, what does Cal do? vs Slow Cal? When I run it, there doesn't seem to be any result or change in Dexters behavior.

I think I understand what ViewEyeRealTime does as it was demonstrated to me. You can add this documentation if you like: "Setup Dexter where it has room to move in all directions. Eval the script. It will move each axis through the full degree of rotation possible, while displaying sample points from the A and B phase A2D converters on the encoder disks as an X and Y graph. This results in a series of circles being drawn, representing the light levels as they change while each slot passes under the sensor. Because the slots are different, the shape of the circles will not always be the same, and some sensor/disk sets may have a center in different places. Once the pattern begins to emerge, click in the center of the circle for that joint. If you need to move the point, that's ok, just click again. Proceed through each joint in the same way. Once the job is done, a set of numbers will be produced which should be copied into the file on Dexter as directed."

There was also a forcePlay file in my Dexter, which I've been modifying and had posted to Fry's repo in the samples folder. Now I'm seeing that this is much the same as the RecordPoints file in this repo? I know for a fact RecordPoints will not work as the DDE has changed the way persistent_get works; it now just returns the value, the function is ignored. e.g.

persistent_get("foo",function(val){bar = val})

becomes

bar = persistent_get("foo")

I'll have to compare them more fully as time allows. I may have good changes to this file, and my updated version of forcePlay may be improved from this one.

The DDE has changed the way persistent_get works; it now just returns the value, the function is ignored. e.g.

persistent_get("foo",function(val){bar = val})

becomes

bar = persistent_get("foo")

There appear to be some other issues as well, e.g. different settings for J4 and J5 friction, etc...

My guess is that you have a much newer version of this file somewhere because I've see you demo this ability on recent videos. But if not, see

https://github.com/JamesNewton/dde/blob/patch-1/examples/forcePlay.js

for a file that actually works (could be better)