New Voice...

[TeamTeamUSA]

In case anyone missed it, the arrival of the Relay Board, gives the
Cupcake another voice:

http://blog.makerbot.com/2010/07/14/the-relay-board-kit-v1-0-has-arrived/

An obvious use is as a rhythm track but what else can it be used
for...‽

Go!

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[B.Fi]

This is definitely cool, and opened up other possibilities. I'm
curious. How is this relay board communicate with the mother board?
I've been working on a similar project, percussion module with
extruder. It's kind of working, but having a trouble with
communicating with gcode. I wonder if using Relay Board can easy up
the problem.

haeyoung

On Jul 15, 2:38 am, TeamTeamUSA <miles...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In case anyone missed it, the arrival of the Relay Board, gives the
> Cupcake another voice:
>

> http://blog.makerbot.com/2010/07/14/the-relay-board-kit-v1-0-has-arri...

[TeamTeamUSA]

I think this is correct [I'm awaiting my relay board]. The motherboard
communicates with the extruder board via the RS-485/ethernet cable.
The extruder board communicates with the relay board via the fan port
[A+-].

You turn the relay board on and off [energize/de-energize] using these
gcodes:

On: M 106
Off: M 107

The relay board has two relays, but I'm not sure how you control the
second one. Maybe?

On: M126
Off: M127

It would be cool to use morse code as a rhythm track. This page has
some cool morse code rhythms:

http://www.philtulga.com/morse.html

Go!

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