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MKS TFT touch screen includes TFT24/28/32/35/70, which can be connected to the motherboard for control via AUX-1. Support Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish and more than 5 languages, and support online language switching ...
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A couple of doubts before updating #311

Open beckmx opened 5 years ago

beckmx commented 5 years ago

I have an old replicator dual with sailfish 7.7, I was wondering if I can use this firmware to install it directly on the screen and it would be compatible, or this screen only communicates with normal gcode params?

meistertek commented 5 years ago

I believe the stock LCD on your replicator dual probably sends g-codes to the Mightyboard. Are you asking if a MKS TFT 28 or similar could replace the stock LCD on your Replicator Dual? I think this might work/ Looking at the pinouts where the orginal LCD plugs in for the mightyboard Rev E. The pin array is called "INTERFACE" and looking at it there are pins for SPI, which is what the MKS TFT touch screens use to communicate in g-code to various motherboards. There are also pins for SD card connection as well on the mightyboard. Hope this helps you out.

beckmx commented 5 years ago

Did help, I was looking more in depth and saw that my printer has a dwin screen, could this be compatible with those displays?

beckmx commented 5 years ago

btw i use the ctc bizer, replicator dual clone with only the display different

meistertek commented 5 years ago

Most people ditch their mightyboard and go with a MKS Base or SBase motherboard. If I were you, I'd simply try wiring up the MKS TFT 28 and seeing if it works to move steppers etc. If it does work then you are on to something new that no one has done or at least documented before. I may covert over 20 Flashforge Creator Pros and Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printers to MKS touchscreens and motherboards. I would then sell all the working Mightyboards from them on e-bay.

folkertj commented 1 year ago

Did you ever get this to work? I have a TFT and I would like to plug it in directly to the mightyboard. I'm not totally sure what the pins all do. If you could hook it up that would be awesome. I've done basically every upgrade except this. Thanks.