Makerbot and Pronterface

[spac3man]

Has anyone here had success running Pronterface with Makerbot
hardware? For kicks and giggles I tried it today but cannot get it to
connect to my machine. I've used the same port and baud rate set up
in my RepG xml file but with no luck.

Any thoughts/info is appreciated.

[Jeremy BP]

I think the makerbot firmware uses a different communication protocol,
but I'm not sure. I run sprinter on my cupcake electronics, and drive
it using pronterface. It's a conversion well worth doing, if you're
interested.

[Joheinz]

I use pronterface with a Cupcake and RAMPS 1.2 board, so making the switch from Replicator to Pronterface was easy.

Markus

2012/3/18 Jeremy BP <jbloyd...@gmail.com>

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[spac3man]

I have thing-o-matic extruder boards and can't get it to connect. Can
anyone confirm that it will/not work?

On Mar 18, 8:13 am, Joheinz <justjohe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I use pronterface with a Cupcake and RAMPS 1.2 board, so making the switch
> from Replicator to Pronterface was easy.
> Markus
>

> 2012/3/18 Jeremy BP <jbloydpesh...@gmail.com>

[Luis E. Rodriguez]

I believe a fellow Hackerspace member used firmware from ScribbleJ
with Pronterface but that is all a guess.

Luis E. Rodriguez

[Robert Hunt]

You will need to load different firmware onto the MakerBot Gen4 electronics before it will work. The MakerBot firmware talks using a protocol called S3G where as others use raw G-Code.

On Sunday, 18 March 2012 19:24:04 UTC, spac3man wrote:

I have thing-o-matic extruder boards and can't get it to connect.  Can
anyone confirm that it will/not work?

On Mar 18, 8:13 am, Joheinz <justjohe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I use pronterface with a Cupcake and RAMPS 1.2 board, so making the switch
> from Replicator to Pronterface was easy.
> Markus
>
> 2012/3/18 Jeremy BP <jbloydpesh...@gmail.com>
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> > I think the makerbot firmware uses a different communication protocol,
> > but I'm not sure. I run sprinter on my cupcake electronics, and drive
> > it using pronterface. It's a conversion well worth doing, if you're
> > interested.
>
> > On Mar 17, 9:53 pm, spac3man <planes4s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Has anyone here had success running Pronterface with Makerbot
> > > hardware?  For kicks and giggles I tried it today but cannot get it to
> > > connect to my machine.  I've used the same port and baud rate set up
> > > in my RepG xml file but with no luck.
>
> > > Any thoughts/info is appreciated.
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[Emery Roth III]

AFAIK ScribbleJ's firmware is the only one that will work on Gen4 with the extruder controller.

http://reprap.org/wiki/Sjfw

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On Mar 19, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Robert Hunt wrote:

You will need to load different firmware onto the MakerBot Gen4 electronics before it will work. The MakerBot firmware talks using a protocol called S3G where as others use raw G-Code.

On Sunday, 18 March 2012 19:24:04 UTC, spac3man wrote:

I have thing-o-matic extruder boards and can't get it to connect.  Can
anyone confirm that it will/not work?

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[Whosawhatsis]

Teacup should work too.