Revision as of 00:07, 30 December 2013

Overview

See Printer Command Set Table for a table of command byte-code mappings.

Command Set Functions

Position and movement

setPosition

Command: 'p'

Response: xpos: int16, ypos: int16

Get the current head position in steps, relative to the zero-point.

getPosition

Command: 'P', xpos: int16, ypos: int16

Response: none

Move the head to step position (xpos, ypos), relative to the zero-point.

zeroPosition

Command: 'Z'

Response: none

Zero the head position Makes the current position be location (0, 0).

incrementPosition

Command: 'M', dx: int16, dy: int16

Response: none

Move the head by dx steps horizontally and dy steps vertically.

getHeadSpeed

Command: 's'

Response: speed: uint8

setHeadSpeed

Command: 'S', speed: uint8

Response: none

Cartridge

testFire

Command: 'T', cartridge: uint8, count: uint8

Response: none

Fire all of cartridge's nozzles by iterating over address signals count times. The cartridge number uses bit places to address multiple cartridges, e.g. a value of 0b01 corresponds to the first cartridge, 0b10 corresponds to the second cartridge, and 0b11 corresponds to both the first and second cartridges.

fire

Command: 'F', cartridge: uint8, primitive: uint8, address: uint8, count: uint8

Response: none

Fire the nozzle at address of primitive of cartridge number cartridge a total of count times.

printRow

Command: 'R', cartridge: uint8, stepsPerDot: uint8, numDots: uint16, data: uint8[]

Response: none

Burst mode firing. Print numDots dots with stepsPerDot X-axis steps between them. The total distance travelled will be stepsPerDot × numDots steps. The firing information is in the data array, which is of length num-set-bits(cartridge) × numDots × 13 bytes. Each byte represents primitive signal values. The format is ordered first by dot position, then by cartridge number as it appears from least-significant bit to most significant, and then by address from 1 to 13.

For example, for cartridge 0b11 and stepsPerDot of 100, the bytes would be ordered: [ dot0-cartridge1-address1, dot0-cartridge1-address2, ..., dot0-cartridge1-address13, dot0-cartridge2-address0, dot0-cartridge2-address0, ..., dot99-cartridge2-address13 ]

Calibration

getCalibration

Command: 'c', field: uint8

Response: value: int16

Get the calibration value of field. The field may be:

• 0x01 -
• 0x02 -

setCalibration

Command: 'C', field: uint8, value: int16

Response: none

Set the calibration of field to value. See getCalibration for the list of valid fields and their corresponding byte codes.

getVersion

Command: 'v'

Response: majorRevision: uint16, minorRevision: uint16

Get the firmware version number.

Peripherals

digitalRead

Command: 'd', pinNumber: uint8

Response: value: uint8

Read the digital value of pinNumber pin (Arduino numbering). Automatically sets required registers to allow input. Response value is 0x00 for false, and 0x01 for true.

digitalWrite

Command: 'D', pinNumber: uint8, value: uint8

Response: none

Write the digital value of pinNumber pin (Arduino numbering). Automatically sets required registers to allow output. The value argument is 0x00 for false, or else true. The firmware will not be responsible for making sure the pin isn't already used for motor or cartridge control.

analogRead

Command: 'a', pinNumber: uint8

Response: value: uint16

Read the analogue (ADC) value of pinNumber pin (Arduino numbering). Automatically sets required registers to allow input. Response value is the ADC reading. The firmware will not be responsible for making sure the pin isn't already used for motor or cartridge control, or for checking that the pin is ADC capabable.

analogWrite

Command: 'A', pinNumber: uint8, dutyCycle: uint8

Response: none

Write the analogue (PWM) value of pinNumber pin (Arduino numbering). Automatically sets required registers to allow output. The dutyCycle argument can be between 0x00 (0% duty cycle) and 0xFF (100% duty cycle). The firmware will not be responsible for making sure the pin isn't already used for motor or cartridge control, or for checking that the pin is PWM capabable.

Other

wait

Command: 'W', milliseconds: uint16

Response: none

Pause reading commands for milliseconds number of milliseconds.

gCode

Command: 'G', string: uint8[], 0x00

Response: none

Execute a null terminated string of GCODE.

extendedCommand

Command: 0xFF, cmd: uint8[]

Response: varies

Execute a command in the secondary command set.