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Former Member over 10 years ago

Hello,

I have a 3D printer that connect to my PC and that creates a virtual COM port via USB.

I want to be able to plug it to an arduino and communicate with it.

I saw that it exist an USB Host for Arduino but I didn't find a library to do what I want.

Do you have any idea ?

Thanks in advance,

Best regards

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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

Hello,

Thanks for all your answers.
In fact I'm not trying to interpret the GCode, just read from a file and send it with the COM protocol, nothing more.
I understand that with the USB Shield host, the hardest part will be the COM Drivers.
Is it any other solution with an Arduino (I have a Mega also) ?

Thanks in advance,

Victor
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balearicdynamics over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

In this case if the role of the Arduino is just to manage the data flow maybe feasable paying anyway attention to the code size.

Enrico
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Workshopshed over 10 years ago

If you do switch to another system that runs Linux then there's always http://octoprint.org/ that pretty much does everything you need.

Here's some articles that might help
https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_USBHostShield.html
http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/usb-host-ftdi
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

Thanks for all those information.
My printer (M3D) is not compatible with Octoprint but I'll check the other links.
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