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u/EdCChamberlain · 1 pointr/octoprint

The trick is lots of diffuse lights. I suggest you get a couple of LED soft boxes and place them both 45 deg off centre from the build plate. Lots of people think they have too much light when using strobes or boxes but in reality you're fine if you use the right shooting settings on your camera and more light is usually better. You can tell when diffuse light is being used as you avoid hard shadows.

Beyond that setting the scene helps a lot too - make sure your camera isn't too tight or too wide and get a clean backdrop that isn't distracting. You could even go so far as to buy a sweeping backdrop in white (or green/blue screen if that's your thing).

I believe you can also make octolapse trigger an external camera which would up the quality massiveness as you can control the aperture / shutter speed / focal length etc much better.

Ill just leave this here as well: https://video.universal-robots.com/making-a-3d-print-with-collaborative-robots

u/IOnceLurketNowIPost · 2 pointsr/octoprint

Not sure what your issue could be, but this log entry is interesting:

2018-09-06 10:51:40,400 - octoprint.plugins.opitemp - ERROR - OpiTemp: can't determine the temperature, are you sure you're using Armbian?

The thing that REALLY confuses me is that you are having trouble when not connected to the printer. I could imagine some ways that you would have failures during a print that are related to serial communication issues, but nothing obvious should cause these kind of random lockups. I've been using this build since the day it was released and have never had a lockup, so something else must be going on.

That leads me to one of the following possible issues:

  1. Your power supply or cable is not performing adequately. I heard a rumor that suggests an undervoltage warning will soon be added to Octoprint. This would help debug, but we'll have to wait for that (if the rumor is true). Since the release of the pi 3 models this problem has become somewhat more common (at least from my anecdotal experience) due to their power requirements. The only way to verify 100% that your psu and cable are working properly is to use a power meter, unless someone else knows a way to figure this out (anybody?). However, one halfway reasonable test that I've used on USB cables before I got a meter was to use it to rapid charge my phone. If the cable can't rapid charge, no way it can power a pi. When I got my usb power meter I discovered that over half of my usb cables couldn't supply the required current, and none of these cables could rapid charge my phone. It's a bit more difficult to test the PSU.
  2. Your pi is overheating, throttling due to the high temps, then eventually shutting down or locking up. Do you have adequate ventilation and/or heatsinks (there are 2 you should add)? Here is an amazon link to a cheap and suitable heatsink, but there are MANY other places they can be acquired
  3. Even though you've tried multiple SD cards, perhaps none of them are actually compatible. I don't have a lot of guidance here since I've never had this issue (I use samsung evo mem and either leave my pi running or shut it down properly, btw), but I have heard of these issues over and over.
  4. The last thing I would recommend is to downgrade Octoprint to 1.3.8 to see if things get better. Definitely check items 1-3 first. If performance improves or your problems vanish, it will be time to open a ticket on the OctoPrint github issues page here

    Good luck! I hope you get things back up and running soon!

    Edit: Fixed link markup in one spot, added link markup where I didn't earlier.
u/dude2k5 · 2 pointsr/octoprint

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07925CYP5

I use that, pretty decent quality. C920 would be similar for live view

The best option would be a DSLR camera (for octolapse), those come out real nice (few examples on my instagram)

https://www.instagram.com/dude2k5/

u/Snoot_Boopins · 8 pointsr/octoprint

That kit is overkill if you are just running Octoprint and don't want a case. All the Pi needs is a power supply cable (for power, obvs), an sd card (which operates like the Pi's internal storage like an HDD/SDD in a standard computer), and a USB cable to connect to your 3d printer. This is assuming it is a Pi model that has a wifi antenna built in (all models after the Pi 3 B+ have this standard) otherwise you will need a wifi adapter or an ethernet cable to connect to your access point.

Outside of the Pi itself, you will need an sd card reader to flash Octoprint to the sd card.

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Hope this helps!

u/MrRemj · 1 pointr/octoprint

For Octopi (Pi running Octoprint), I bought a stock Pi 2 B+ and an 8GB micro SD card. Scavenged a microUSB charger from a deserted phone (anything as long as it's a 2.5A power supply). I had an SD card reader already, and a random microUSB-USB cable.

If you're going to run Octopi, you might already have access to a 3D printer to print your own case. You might consider a $5 USB webcam from a thrift store.

GPIO layout is easy enough to find on the internet - the amazon kit doesn't actually give you anything actionable for using the pins. (If you're looking for a kit to mess around with a Pi, find something with a bread board, any kind of sensors, and a mix of male-male, male-female connectors to go from your pi to bread board, breadboard to breadboard.) Something like this, if you go barebones on the Pi. (Once you have your Pi running Octoprint, you can still use the electronics kit with another pi or arduino.)

The kit also gives you heat sinks, which is...okay. However, they don't give you any thermal paste to attach them — I might not be understanding how these heat sinks attach.

u/Fallen_Kingdoms · 1 pointr/octoprint

If you pressed for space getting a smart strip could be another option that is worth the cost. I use this one
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DXSJP8H/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_aZQEDbH56A748
I have a plug for the printer, pi and my light which I can control independently.

u/pallladin · 1 pointr/octoprint

You could also try a UART connection, but you'll need something like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DP7SPNH

Alternatively, your router should know the IP address.

u/BlenderBear · 2 pointsr/octoprint

I just got a few of these to remotely turn on/off the whole setup: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075XL3DRD/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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I can use google assistant as well to turn on/off lights, printer, and octopi.

u/Boothecus · 1 pointr/octoprint

This is definitely not it, but something interesting I discovered tonight. I was looking a couple of nights ago at the extension for stopping a print at a specific layer for a filament change. I didn't print anything with it; I just looked at the settings and stuff. Apparently, I turned the feature on during my looking. It was now active for any prints through Cura. Then I remembered the other night I was printing a file from Thingiverse and it suddenly paused in the middle of the job. I wrote it off as bad Gcode. Now I think that the pause-at-layer extension was active when I set up that job and the problem was me and not the job itself. By the way, when I first set up my 3B+, I got the low voltage message in Octoprint. So I replaced the psu with this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L88M8TE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and I don't get the message any more.

u/mp3three · 2 pointsr/octoprint

Late to the party here, but are there any other common reasons for it? I am still getting that warning even what should be a good adapter. Haven't been seeing any ill effects from that I think