Getting right into the guts of this thing, there’s a few basic discoveries
There’s two names on the market –
Monoprice MP Maker Pro Mk.1 is an alternate supplier of this printer – Externally they look identical!
Hardware
Main Board
Lots of Plugs and connectors!, it’s a custom developed board with an Arduino Mega 2560 clone on board!
The LCD Hardware
Tricky one this
it looks, externally quite similar to the Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus and the Wanhao Duplicator 7
A fairly clear, Resistive touch based display..
From the rear –
Printed on a sticker – Part Numbers – F480272T043
Bar Code – *180206*
PCB Silkscreen – 095P2E13732A0
Main IC is a 128 pin TQFP – Dwin.com.cn T5 with the following markings N1GK32.00A-1 1742-CM8
Flash Memory – TC58BVG0S3HTAI0 – EEPROM SLC 1GB NAND 24NM 48TSOP
Resistive Screen Overlay- T 8902 , SF 1746
very few of the part numbers google well…
DWIN though on the chip, that’s familiar!
Wanhao software / Firmware Page
One of the folders in the new 1.6.1 firmware is called DWIN_SET
Having a nose through the folder gives us a file called CONFIG.txt
STOP_DWIN_OS; looks great, that suggests that this thing is running DWIN_OS! connecting to COM7 at 115200 Baud (i assume, as 115200 rarely comes up in anything other than serial comms speed)
No idea what the other stuff means, can’t find a SYS_CFG file
Lets Google
3rd hit is a Wanhao hit!……..GITHUB, cool, we can get the source code, possibly? – those lines look great thugh, similar to my config.txt file in the firmware –
Clicking through brings us to a LCD code repository for the Duplicator i3 Plus – the OS looks broadly similar to the D7 – chances are, it’s the same, or similar LCD – which means at a later time, I can have fun ‘poking around’ in the code and possibly customising things a little
Lets poke here – Opening this file in Notepad++
Wanhao-I3-Plus/LCD/i3 PLUS LCD/DWprj.tft
Gives some gibberish and some clear text –
CDwinTerminal, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
doesn’t mean much to me right now though, maybe later……
Opening this file though gives a nice text file….
Wanhao-I3-Plus/LCD/i3 PLUS LCD/DWprj.hmi
| [INIT] | |
| PICFIX=1 | |
| VARCount=64 | |
| SCREENDSIZE=480X272 | |
| SPADDRESS=5000 | |
| [IMG] | |
| 0=0.bmp | |
| 1=1.bmp | |
| 2=2.bmp | |
| 3=3.bmp |
Which is 219 lines long and just seems a cross reference for actions, i.e. action 1, show 1.bmp, action 88, show 88.bmp
Nice and easy to design for – this now shows that the LCD is a self contained ‘computer’ that just responds and transmits simple serial data at 115200 baud, is 480×272..and runs DWIN_OS
That’s for the i3 Plus…which is now a couple of years old, but given the DWIN markings on the D9 chip, I’d probably say it’s going to be an identical, if not similar LCD type in the D9 ………we’ll see
…….waaay too much down the rabbit hole for today
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