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Topic: Controlling printer with Raspberry Pi

I am thinking of setting up a Raspberry Pi for "Wireless" (and off-site) control of my 3D printer. If it works out, I will have it set up to also stream a live video of the print and/or record time-lapse video.

Has anyone else done anything like this before? I am mainly concerned with getting the printer to communicate with the Rpi. I am not very familiar with the limitations of linux. My printer operates with a RAMBo v1.3 board and I use MatterControl for slicing, although it might be easier to figure some way to do the slicing on another computer first since the Rpi may not be able to handle some larger slicing jobs. I don't know - lot of unknowns - any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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Re: Controlling printer with Raspberry Pi

Octopi works awesome.

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Re: Controlling printer with Raspberry Pi

Kronikabuse wrote:

Octopi works awesome.

Wow, I had no idea this was so common. Looks great. Thanks.

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-Custom built Solidoodle 3 clone w/ E3D v6+ Volcano    -Solidoodle Press w/ E3D Lite6
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Re: Controlling printer with Raspberry Pi

If you have a touchscreen module, check out

http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,460818

or

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/10169/octoprint/

I've gotten both to work.  The second one was more work but is offers better control.

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Re: Controlling printer with Raspberry Pi

I installed octoprint a few days ago and I wouldn't be without it already.. printer is now in a workshop instead of next to my computer.

as a bonus, it does a timelapse which I really cant think of much use for if the print went according to plan, so I uploaded one smile


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Re: Controlling printer with Raspberry Pi

My only complaint with the setup, is that I wish I had done it sooner!

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