have a system to have the 3d printer print wireless

you should build something that hooks up to the 3d printer like the raspberry pi which you can connect to from a computer somewhere else and you can send a print to be printed and control the 3d printer

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Former Member over 10 years ago +1

Well, Ben might want to do something more elaborate (something to automatically move the print off the bed for sequential printing, maybe?), but just for simple remote 3D printing, it'd be a really short…

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Former Member over 10 years ago

Well, Ben might want to do something more elaborate (something to automatically move the print off the bed for sequential printing, maybe?), but just for simple remote 3D printing, it'd be a really short episode: (1) install the OctoPi distro of OctoPrint on a Raspberry Pi, (2) get the Pi up on the network, opening needed ports on your router, (3) plug the printer into a USB port on the Pi, (4) upload gcode to Octoprint, (5) Print away!
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

what about a fully automatic 3d printing system composed of both our ideas
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

what about a fully automatic 3d printing system composed of both our ideas
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