A very good addition after the 1st test prints was the addition of Octoprint on the printer.
This
gives the possibility to:
Control and monitor the prusa i3 and the printing jobs right from within a browser
Have live feedback regarding the current progress of the print job
Have a feedback on the temperatures of the hotend and print bed (possibility to adapt on the fly).
Move the print head along all axes.
Start – stop – pause the active print job.
Have the prusa send push notifications on job progress
Create live timelapse recordings of the print.
Slice STL files directly within OctoPrint from a web browser.
In order to install Octoprint you need:
a raspberry pi (preferably the pi3),
an sd card (a quick one),
a wifi adapter or an ethernet connection and
a usb camera or a pi camera.
Installing the Octoprint software (linux) is very easy and strait forward. All you need is:
download the Octopi distribution from their site,
format an SD card
and with a disk imager install the octopi to the sd card
If you are using a wifi dongle you need to edit the octopi-network.txt file on the root of the sd card and declare on it the wifi name and password.
The raspberry must be connected directly to the rambo controller of the prusa.
On Thingiverse you can find ready to print designs in order to be able to adapt the camera on the bed of prusa.
Prusa mount
http://techgeeks.gr/octoprint-on-prusa-i3-mk2s/
