With the availability of the Raspberry Pie single board computer system for about $50 and Arduino single-chip computers and consumer-friendly systems like the Circuit Playground Express practical electronic builds are available to non-engineers. Many schools are using these systems to teach children about building with electronics starting in elementary school. This forum is dedicated to discussions of these and other consumer-friendly electronic products.
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I have heard about raspberry pies for years, but never really looked into them. This maybe something I now look into since I have a 3d printer.
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Once you installed the desired system onto the SD card, you can edit a text file on the boot partition to preset your wireless network. It is in the fat format and can be mounted with any operation system. So just plug the SD card into your PC, Mac, Amiga whatever, edit the text file, put it back and boot the pi.
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Rasberry Pi and Arduino among other Programmable boards, are very usefull in 3D printers as well! I use them both even for printing monitoring, computer unit replacement etc. Ras Pi can be used for making MSLA or SLA 3d Printers saccesfully. I use them a lot!Thinking simple is the hardest way.....
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Question: Can a Pi be used to actually run the printer? I'm thinking not, simply because I don't think a stock Pi has stepper motor drivers (although there's probably some addon you can get 😉).
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Originally posted by Ender5r View PostQuestion: Can a Pi be used to actually run the printer? I'm thinking not, simply because I don't think a stock Pi has stepper motor drivers (although there's probably some addon you can get 😉).Thinking simple is the hardest way.....
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Here is an example .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u35L0jGCqFcThinking simple is the hardest way.....
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Here is a Hat for RasPi to run a printer https://reprapworld.eu/products/elec..._raspberry_pi/Thinking simple is the hardest way.....
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Raspberry Pis are very nice. I have three connected to my printers (Pi1, 2xPi2 (OctoPrint)), a PI1 as my entrance camera (MotionEye), a PI3 with PiHole (keeps my network advert free) and a PI4 as a media center (Kodi) mounted on the back of a 24" Display.
The only downside when buying a Raspberry Pi is that they don´t come with a spare. Every time you buy one, you have exactly one PI less, than you need.
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