Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi

Being tired of running back and forth to my 3D-printer to change stl files and starting / stopping prints, I decided to give Octoprint a shot. Octoprint basically provides a webinterface for 3D-printers, which allows you to send tasks over your local network to the printer and to monitor the prints. The software also provides a plugin functionality, so you can create your custom addons if required. Note that you can use Octoprint for slicing, but in my case I will be starting of with only sending pre sliced stl files to print. ...

December 23, 2017 · 4 min · Marcel Jurtz