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Decided to add lights to the printer so I can monitor the jobs on it in the dark out in the shop, lol.
At any rate, since I was going to do that, figured I'd set it up to turn the printer on and off and be able to turn the lights on and off via the octoprint control pane.
This guy did a pretty darn good job of documenting what you need to do.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1428478
Here's a good link to the the gpio pinouts for the Raspberry Pi 3
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/docs/pinmappingsrpi
Well so much for my attempts at cleaning up the wiring and using an enclosure.
I basically ran a thick wire from the power supply to a little terminal block, and used some fancy schmancy wiring to turn it into more of a bus block.
I used these little ferrules on the the ends of the wires. Really like using these over bare wires or just tinning the ends with solder. Note, these do require a special crimper and they will put a nice square profile on the crimped end.
https://www.amazon.com/ELSKY-Assort...id=1487456129&sr=8-2&keywords=wiring+ferrules
Here you can see that I've destroyed all my attempts at hiding the wiring.
At any rate, since I was going to do that, figured I'd set it up to turn the printer on and off and be able to turn the lights on and off via the octoprint control pane.
This guy did a pretty darn good job of documenting what you need to do.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1428478
Here's a good link to the the gpio pinouts for the Raspberry Pi 3
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/docs/pinmappingsrpi
Well so much for my attempts at cleaning up the wiring and using an enclosure.
I basically ran a thick wire from the power supply to a little terminal block, and used some fancy schmancy wiring to turn it into more of a bus block.
I used these little ferrules on the the ends of the wires. Really like using these over bare wires or just tinning the ends with solder. Note, these do require a special crimper and they will put a nice square profile on the crimped end.
https://www.amazon.com/ELSKY-Assort...id=1487456129&sr=8-2&keywords=wiring+ferrules
Here you can see that I've destroyed all my attempts at hiding the wiring.
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