These mini PCs only consume 5-10 watts instead of a laptop that uses ☘0 watts," he writes in his Github profile. "It prints smoother than using a laptop running a bunch of other services not needed for printing and it draws much less power. Walter Schreppers, an engineer from Belgium, developed an app called Printerface (not to be confused with the above-mentioned Pronterface) that allows makers to control their printers through a web connection and calls out the fact that it's not just portability that makes the Raspberry Pi an idea choice for 3-D printers, but efficiency and environmental friendliness as well. While 3-D printer software is now attracting people with financial motives, the hacker era is far from over. Combined with the new Raspberry Pi camera and a little hacking the OctoPrint could be set up to automatically record timelapse videos of every print job, push them to YouTube, and create the first channel featuring nothing but 3-D prints. It can also do some fun things like create time lapse movies of parts being produced. OctoPrint has the same basic features as Printrun and Repetier - it can prepare jobs for printing, preview G-Code, and monitor the progress of print jobs. OctoPrint brings a little fun to an often frustrating process. Right now I am saving everything to my Dropbox account and just downloading the G-Code files on the Pi." "I am using my main computer to do the slicing of the STL files to generate the gcode. PandaZhu is an ESP32 based 3D printer controller board with WiFi & Bluetooth. "I just wanted to make a self-contained system that was easily transportable," says Bales. Put the microSD card into the RPi and power it up with the power adapter On. So he tricked out his Prusa Mendel RepRap with a Raspberry Pi, a 7-inch touchscreen tablet, and some code from Github. 3-D printing technology felt futuristic, but leaving a laptop attached to a printer for the duration of a modest five-hour print job seemed as dreadful as history class. He got into building a RepRap while acting as president of his engineering class. To do that, launch raspi-config at the command line, navigate to the Interfaces menu and toggle Camera to on. Zachary Bales is an undergraduate studying electrical engineering and physics at Cal State Long Beach. While most people still have trouble setting up an inkjet printer on a wireless network, a group of intrepid IT hackers are making big strides with far more advanced machines, using the tiny Raspberry Pi microcomputer to untether laptops from their 3-D printers.
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