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Jan 22, 2016, 11:23:29 AM1/22/16

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Has anyone had any luck with this? I'd like to use something like pronterface as host software.

I put a sniffer on the USB port, and it looks like the newmatter utility is passing JSON strings to and from the printer (over USB).

Poking around the firmware - It looks like it supports the following commands -

status

file_push

abort

pause

unpause

load_filament

remove_filament

gcode_cmd

Has anyone else went down this road? Also, does anyone know what microcontroller it uses?

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Jan 23, 2016, 9:04:20 PM1/23/16

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The MOD-t is using this guy:

I also set up the sniffer and saw the JSON calls. That's about as far as I've gotten.

In theory, it should be possible to hook up a custom interface to call the JSON, that does't but us much over the basic NewMatter app.

Ideally, it would be nice to get deeper into their microcontroller code.

Chris

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Jan 25, 2016, 1:13:26 PM1/25/16

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I'm hoping that the gcode_cmd call can execute a single line of code. From there, we might be able to get an adaptor for Pronterface

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Feb 12, 2016, 12:31:57 PM2/12/16

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Be aware that such interfaces are likely to change without notice, and perhaps in small ways that cause crashes.

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