Tagged with '3d printing'

OctoPrint Webhook for Filament Change Notifications

• December 11, 2023
• 4 minutes
• 3d printing, automation, home assistant, inspiration, tech

I've been using OctoPrint to handle nearly all of my 3D printing operations since I moved to it a little over a year ago. It's an absolutely wonderful platform and I can't recommend it enough.

Hotend Thermistor With A Silpat, Revisited

• December 04, 2023
• 3 minutes
• 3d printing, mistakes, tech

I decided to post a quick follow-up to the original fix I'd implemented about ten months ago.

The $1M question was...

Going Dual Camera with OctoPrint

• March 13, 2023
• 6 minutes
• 3d printing, automation, inspiration, tech

Almost as soon as I started using OctoPrint, I also set up an old webcam to let me remotely "see" things since I keep the printer in the basement. That whole process was an adventure, because I don't use a Raspberry Pi for OctoPrint like most folks; I have an old Intel NUC (also used as a local dev server) running Ubuntu on which I installed OctoPrint. To that end, I had to do some manual install/build of the mjpg-streamer, specifically I used this package to get started.

Mister Thermistor, Fixed With a Silpat

• January 30, 2023
• 8 minutes
• 3d printing, inspiration, mistakes, personal, tech

I got hooked into 3D printing late last summer. A problem that cropped up after the first couple months of tinkering and relatively error-less printing was an issue with thermal runaway. Something I could correct for short periods of time, but never make totally go away...