MightyBoard LCD 2004 Controller

Introduction

MightyBoard LCD 2004 Controller is a controller for the Make Bot Replicator without a PC. It is the expansion board of the MightyBoard. From the board, we can know the working condition and achieve basic control of the MightyBoard. The screen of the Interface Board can display 4 lines of text, with 16 characters per line. That gives us a grand total of 64 characters to work with, although scrolling to display more text is very simple to do.

Overview and Hardware Resources

The expansion board includes a standard 2004 LCD screen, 2 kinds of backlight which are yellow button black character and blue button white character to choose, 5 operation buttons which are “↑”, “↓”, “←”, “→” and the confirm button in the middle, tow LED display light, a SD card slot and two interfaces of IC. In the red box there’s a level match IC: 74HC4050D, in the blue box there’s a 8 grade serial shift register.

Interface specifications

Get Started

If the MakerBot MightyBoard RevE has program loaded, you only need to correctly connect the MightyBoard LCD 2004 Controller to MakerBot MightyBoard RevE to work normally, without any other settings. If the MakerBot MightyBoard RevE has not program loaded, please refer to the MakerBot MightyBoard RevE manual of Geeetech Company.

Note: the SD card slot on the expansion board and the TF card slot on the main board cannot be used at the same time.

Documents

Schematics Media:MakerBot Replicator Interface REVB Schematics and Fab Files.pdf

BOM Media:MakerBot Replicator Interface REVB BOM.zip

MakerBot LCD Media:MakerBot Replicator Interface Board REVB.zip