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Thing-O-Matic LCD Temperature Readout
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I don't know why Thingiverse puts the descriptions in this order and makes you read through my extreme verbosity just to get to some instructions...
Cupcake users have been rigging up LCDs for a while, but as far as I (and the Firmware, and the RepG code) know, no one has done it on a Thing-O-Matic. I guess the latest RepG monitors temperatures, so that's nice, but I had this LCD in a box and I thought finally - something to use it on.
Yes, this has no keypad, but even if you have /nothing/ in your workshop, the total project cost for this is < $20.
It turned out to be a bit of a slog, since there was literally nothing written for it in the Thing-O-Matic firmware. But worse than that, since I personally have two extruders, and I hope others will follow ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6632 ) ... it didn't make sense to hook it to the extruder controller as is traditional. It made sense to hook it to the motherboard.
This brings in a whole raft of problems. The m
Cupcake users have been rigging up LCDs for a while, but as far as I (and the Firmware, and the RepG code) know, no one has done it on a Thing-O-Matic. I guess the latest RepG monitors temperatures, so that's nice, but I had this LCD in a box and I thought finally - something to use it on.
Yes, this has no keypad, but even if you have /nothing/ in your workshop, the total project cost for this is < $20.
It turned out to be a bit of a slog, since there was literally nothing written for it in the Thing-O-Matic firmware. But worse than that, since I personally have two extruders, and I hope others will follow ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6632 ) ... it didn't make sense to hook it to the extruder controller as is traditional. It made sense to hook it to the motherboard.
This brings in a whole raft of problems. The m
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