Fully enclosed with custom UI

T3P3Tony

aha! so you are connecting the ESP to the PanelDue header?

AdiGital

aha! so you are connecting the ESP to the PanelDue header?

Yes, that's correct.
I'm using a few libraries to get the JSON data, handle the screen, UI jpg files and so on, and just sending the G-code commands back to it. So it really is micro-PanelDue (read: a poor substitute). The were two reasons I made it: I wanted to give the printer my personal touch, and I didn't have much space for the original PanelDue.

Cata

Nice lcd setup. I need one of that

fma

Any news about mini-display files and code? I would love to build one...

Danal

@adigital said in Fully enclosed with custom UI:

Yes, the walls were covered with vinyl. I thought it was the easiest solution giving acceptable results. However, it wasn't as easy as I thought to lay it without wrinkles.

I've had great success putting vinyl on aluminum by spraying plenty of water on both the aluminum and the sticky side of the vinyl. Very SMALL amount of dish soap in the water, just enough to break the surface tension. And then squeegee, squeegee, squeegee!!

Works great.

In fact, this instrument panel is "shelf paper" vinyl over aluminum, applied before it was CNC cut.

tjb1

@fma said in Fully enclosed with custom UI:

Any news about mini-display files and code? I would love to build one...

Also very interested in the small display!

AdiGital

Apologies I was inactive for so long. Was busy with something else. I didn't even update the Duet firmware and I'm still on 1.xx.

After planning on publishing more detailed video/review of the printer I failed to do so. I eventually gave up and today published a "work in progress" version I created some time ago. Just came here to post a link and found the posts. Really sorry.

I'll do my best to dig up all I've got for the UI display and create the documentation. It's quite simple design.

The video if anyone interested:
https://youtu.be/y1CbmgtJGtQ

A Former User

Looks like the cooling for the Duet moves the majority of the air on the top of the board, I think recall reading cooling should be on the bottom of the board for the stepper drivers at least? But if you're not running high currents then it probably wont matter.

DennisHall

@adigital Your Printer is nothing short of "STUNNING"!
Your video is also actually really well done!

AdiGital

And here is the SUIFD code and short connections description:
https://github.com/AdiGitalEU/SUIFD

@bearer - the cooling is on the back side as well. The board is pressed against aluminium bar via thermo pad.

Thank yuo @DennisHall

A Former User

Nice! Love the attention to detail!

Slightly off topic, this wife of yours - any chance she has a sister?

AdiGital

@bearer Haha! She liked your comment I printed her a couple of kitchen tools and she was all happy