Does the xBuddy Board have any gCode-controllable GPIO pins?
OK, the question might be a tad strange, so let me give some context: I have a Beagle Cam V2 in my enclosure and I sometime do time-lapse videos with it. Now I had the idea that it would be nifty if I could turn the lights in my enclosure on only for the time when a picture is taken at the layer changes. It would be quite easy to build a little circuit that controls my LED strips - but I'd need some kind of a signal to actually trigger that circuit.
If there were some GPIO pins on the board that can be controlled with gCode, I could simply insert the proper code into the layer change code and my idea could actually work - but I have no idea if this is an actual possibility with the hardware. I assume that _something_ must be there as the MMU needs to communicate with the mainboard in some way, but I have no clue how that is implemented.
Does anybody know if a feature like that exists and how it is used?
RE: Does the xBuddy Board have any gCode-controllable GPIO pins?
Short version: Yes, but we don't know how to address them, yet. If you can poke at the devs, and get them to respond, that would be fantastic.
As soon as we have access to the GPIO that is available, there are apparently quite a few projects that will take off
RE: Does the xBuddy Board have any gCode-controllable GPIO pins?
Just FYI, there's been an update to the above thread, with i2c control being implemented in a recent merge