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I am looking to add lights, a camera and any other mod that enhances the M2. I am currently reading up on octoprint with raspberry pi as we'll. If anyone cares to share how they integrated these type of items please post what you have done.

Thanks!

Hi Keith,
I play around with G-code Printr http://gcodeprintr.dietzm.de/#GCodePrintr.
Works really good on smartphones or tablet even remote access is possible.
check it out.

Michael

MichaelH wrote:Hi Keith,
I play around with G-code Printr http://gcodeprintr.dietzm.de/#GCodePrintr.
Works really good on smartphones or tablet even remote access is possible.

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check it out.

Michael

Thanks, I will check it out.

I am currently running with rsilvers' camera mount, suitable for any webcam with a 1/4-20 screw mount:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:265276
Camera is Logitech C920: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006JH ... UTF8&psc=1

Lighting is http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JF ... UTF8&psc=1, which I chose because it actually lists a color temperature.
Google Groups forum thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searc ... eXIJcfQ5IJ

Two equal length strips wired in series (negative of one strip connected to positive of the other, remaining contacts to power and ground) and powered from an unused MOSFET on the RAMBO. Lets me control them from gcode, which is not extraordinarily useful and will have to be redone when the v4 dual extruder comes out, but at least I am able to do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tav2keYJn3k

I think an easier (and probably better) solution is to power the strips separately using an external 12V power supply and maybe a cheap LED controller. If you use an RGB "5050" LED strip, you can even have different colors. Or you could go with a camera ringlight like in the thingiverse image for the camera mount.

jsc wrote:I am currently running with rsilvers' camera mount, suitable for any webcam with a 1/4-20 screw mount:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:265276

camera-mount.jpg

Camera is Logitech C920: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006JH ... UTF8&psc=1

Lighting is http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JF ... UTF8&psc=1, which I chose because it actually lists a color temperature.
Google Groups forum thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searc ... eXIJcfQ5IJ

Two equal length strips wired in series (negative of one strip connected to positive of the other, remaining contacts to power and ground) and powered from an unused MOSFET on the RAMBO. Lets me control them from gcode, which is not extraordinarily useful and will have to be redone when the v4 dual extruder comes out, but at least I am able to do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tav2keYJn3k

I think an easier (and probably better) solution is to power the strips separately using an external 12V power supply and maybe a cheap LED controller. If you use an RGB "5050" LED strip, you can even have different colors. Or you could go with a camera ringlight like in the thingiverse image for the camera mount.

I have a similar webcam so I am going to print the mount you use. What software do you use to view the print remotely? Do you just have the camera plugged into the same PC that your printer is?

Thanks

KeithA wrote:I have a similar webcam so I am going to print the mount you use. What software do you use to view the print remotely? Do you just have the camera plugged into the same PC that your printer is?

Yes, it is plugged into the same computer. I'm running on a Mac; I've tried a number of different solutions. iCam works well for viewing on a local network through iOS devices, but re-encodes the video stream, so the video is clunky and lower resolution than I'd like. I've ended up just setting up Skype with a new account and setting it up to auto answer all calls, which will work for all operating systems.

I'm using UStream for our webcam. It's free and works fine- if you tolerate the ads.