OctoPi

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I had hijacked Bills thread, thought I'd better start a new thread for anyone with questions to keep from cluttering his thread.

Octopi is a software distribution you can download and write to an SD (or micro SD) card, which a RaspberryPi (RPi) will boot to. The software is written to boot the RPi and run a web server for you to open in a web browser. The web page lets you connect and control a usb or serial connected 3d printer. It also lets you use a RPi camera or a usb attached webcam to monitor and take time lapse images of the prints as they are running.


https://octopi.octoprint.org/


You can run the printer stand alone, but you have to transfer your print files back and forth from your computer to the printer using a micro SD card. The Octopi web page will allow you to upload gcodes, or if you use Cura for slicing, Octopi has a Cura slicing engine built into it and can upload STL models/files to slice directly in Octopi. Octopi allows your computer to be freed up for other tasks and lets you open the web page on multiple devices (even tablets and smartphones).


Setup of the Octopi is as simple as writing the image to the sd card, updating the networking file on the card with your wifi router info, booting it up, connecting your printer, and opening a web page to http://octopi.local or http://192.168.x.x


I'd recommend checking with the install instructions at the link above for the software as they may change with different versions, but there is a good setup article on page 50 of MagPi magazine: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi36.pdf

It also has an article on getting started with Raspberry Pi.
 
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