dekuNukem / bob_cassette_rewinder

Renew and Refill Bob Cassettes for 98% Cost Saving!
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Possible Investigation - Continous Feed Refill / Reset Inbuilt #12

Open Hawk-v3 opened 3 years ago

Hawk-v3 commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your investigation here, and your work on making a rewinder!

While I wouldn't be sure how to do it, as I'm not much of a tinkerer, could you not modify a cartridge (or maybe two, one Pop one R&R) to use something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_ink_system

I figure the easiest way would be to pipe up a Pop cartridge with a count of 90 washes with an inbuilt reset module, and when those 90 are done, use a piped up or refillable-plugged R&R cartridge with it's own inbuilt reset module. You'd save space inside them for the electronics by emptying the tanks and carving them away.

dekuNukem commented 2 years ago

You can enable the Write Protect on the EEPROM, and Bob will be unable to update the wash count, making it working forever.

Check out the guide here: https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder/blob/master/user_manual.md#can-i-enable-write-protect-wp-to-lock-out-wash-count