Project BrundleFab

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BrundleFab - a 3D Printer Experiment

Design Notes

Connecting an Arduino Mega2560 to a Seed Studio SD Card v3.1 Shield

Well, it doesn't just snap on and work. You need to route some pins:

MEGA Pin SD Shield Function
ICSP1 D12 MOSI
ICSP2 5v 5v
ICSP3 D13 SCK
ICSP4 D11 MISO
ICSP6 GND Gnd
D53 D10 SS

Use the arduino SD library, with a 'const int chipSelect=SS;' and you are good to go.

HP F4480

I am using a pile of trashed HP F4480 DeskJet printers as a source of motors, gears, and encoders.

Here are some information I have discovered about the internals of this printer:

Rotary optical encoder board

This board monitors the 1200 DPI optical encoder disk attached to the main paper handling roller in the printer.

It uses quadrature encoding, and can monitor both forward and reverse direction.

I am using the 'Encoder' library from the [1] Arduino library collection.

Pin 1 is the kerf on the CPU board connection

Pin Function
4 Output A
3 Vcc 3.3v
2 Output B
1 Gnd

Linear Encoder

The HP F4480 printhead carriage monitors a 1200 DPI optical encoder strip, which is the feedback to the carriage motor.

HP CB8605-60085 Printer Carriage Pinout