Topic: Solidoodle Transparence
This is starting to get out of hand for wanting to use the on board SD card reader on the Solidoodle/Printrboard rev E board.
In not finding the schematics for this board that was build under Creative Commons 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
I have contacted Edrick with Solidoodle for information about using the SD Card reader he pointed me to the Solidoodle forum and to Printrboard directly.
Wayne,
I have done some searching and this is all that I was able to find in regards to the firmware for the printrboard rev-e:
http://reprap.org/wiki/Printrboard
http://reprap.me/PrintrBoard/en
We do not have anything that is different than this for the board.
Let me know how it goes.
Regards,
Edrick
This is not good as the revision id D and there reference to E is not the same as Solidoodle.
I did find these 2 blogs about this problem where they talk about the Y end stop was sharing a processor pin causing problems. I thought this was the fix, but as it turns out the port settings in the code are different that Solidoodle uses. So i really need to see the schematic to track this down.
After a couple of emails i wrote this to Edrick:
Edrick
I would like to say something here without wrecking our lines of communication.
You have made changes to the Rev E board and i truly would like to get to the bottom of the SD card problem , for one reason among others is i want to use it.
Without knowing the changes made this could makes it almost impossible to track down the problems.
You have built it under CC 3.0. I have seen in the forums also that it looks like the files have not been released.
I would say you are setting yourself up for a big problem as this is not in the spirit of CC 3.0 nor within the legal bounds.
I hope this works out for you.
Regards,
Wayne
His reply:
Wayne,
I am not sure what the issue is. The SD card reader works but we have not written any firmware for it to be recognized by a computer.
I understand that you are very interested in using it but unfortunately if you would like to use this feature, you will have to write your own firmware in order to utilize the SD card.
I am not sure where legal implications are imposed here but I wish you the best of luck with editing the firmware. You can do so with the arduino IDE programming environment.
Regards,
Joel
My last email is:
The problem is where Edrick suggested i look at the for info for the Rev E board does not match up with your current board. The porting is different. I needed to look at the schematic of your version of the board to confirm what pin is used to operate a particular device, stop switch ect.
It is impossible to write the firmware without knowing exactly where the pins go, again they are not the same as Printrboard d and e that i have found online.
So I am asking to see the schematic of Solidoodle's version of the Printrboard. May i have this to further investigate the SD card reader issue?
For some reason it seams they do not want to share there files that they had gotten free, that a lot of other people have put time and work into.
This not an attack on Solidoodle. Not really sure why it has gotten to this point This all is really way to much for wanting to fix the SD card reader nonworking issue that that really should have been done at the factory.
i am willing to give my time to try and fix this problem but seems i am not getting the same from the makers.
All i asked for is there schematic of there version of the Printrboard........built under CC 3.0.
I have not received another reply from Solidoodle as of yet