My Prusa MK3 has a header on the Einsy controller board for a Zero, but the Zero W was always underpowered. I run OctoPrint on a Pi 4 now, but the Zero W 2 is tempting for its form factor-- it would just fit in so nicely hmm. Thank you for the review of exactly what I was wondering about :) Update: replaced the 4 with the 02W, works great!
As an idea for test prints that you can re-use... There are a number of dual colour filament stls on prusaprinters or thingiverse that you can create a circular filament. Once the print is done, you can reuse the printed filament by putting it back into the machine.
That's one of ways to do it. Although I have all my test prints on display (haven't print that much of them) and fail ones usually end up in the hackspace bin for pla which gets donated to recycle place
I'm curious about one thing. You offloaded the network load to the wired USB adapter. Did you try it with a wireless USB adapter? Or can you try it? I'd think that should provide the same load reduction. I only ask because my machines are too far away from anywhere with wired ethernet. This house wasn't prewired, so the best I could do was to put an access point high up against a wall in another room, about 30' away. The wifi signal is fine, but the only way I'll get wired service there anytime soon is to make a wireless bridge. Not impossible, but I'd probably have to buy another RPi to do it. I just got done converting a cheap laser engraver to running Marlin on a Creality 4.2.7 board. I'm ready for Octoprint to run there. I want to leave the machine in a closed cabinet while it runs, and use Octoprint to monitor it. Probably watching from my phone or my desktop computer in another room. I have spare WiFi adapters, USB hubs, and USB cameras. I don't have spare Raspberry Pi. And if it can work on RPi Zero 2, that seems like a good choice, and I could get my RPi 4B back from the first printer. Well, assuming that I can find a RPi for sale.
Hi I haven't used the WiFi adapter as RPIZ2W comes with WiFi. It would be a bit pointless to close WiFi built in (which uses bandwidth of the USB hub) and add exactly the same solution via physical dongle.
Hey very cool video! Thanks for sharing. I have to admit that at the end I got lost of how you are powering the Raspberry. I like the idea of the hub just to have a wired connection.
@@notenoughtech I just thought I will place a bucket on the power supply to feed this. And now I see your comment. I will definitely visit :D Thanks again! Great job!
I have a problem leaving the printing surface centered on the bed. I have linear guides in X that make the extruder move forward 14mm and the printing area is somewhat outside of the bed.
I wanted to go for lithopane prints as gifts for the holidays. But i never done that before. So probably quite a bit of tinkering ahead 🙈 thanks again !
@@nikond90ful1 oh I know what you mean now. The streams. If you apply the filters to octoprint settings they don't apply to the raw stream. So I didn't bother much with it since they are only there to prove the point that the stream is working :)
I always appreciate it :) I thought I missed something important. Half of my desk broll is shot upsidedown so when someone mentions this I'm scared I forgot to flip the footage in the timeline
I think it's not the Octoprint's fault but the stream taking the bandwidth. Since most of us run it to keep an eye on the thing we print... it's fair to say we need the stream and therefore it's worth using an adapter
My Prusa MK3 has a header on the Einsy controller board for a Zero, but the Zero W was always underpowered.
I run OctoPrint on a Pi 4 now, but the Zero W 2 is tempting for its form factor-- it would just fit in so nicely hmm.
Thank you for the review of exactly what I was wondering about :)
Update: replaced the 4 with the 02W, works great!
I don't think you would be disappointed plus it frees your RPI4 so you can use it in more power hungry projects
As an idea for test prints that you can re-use... There are a number of dual colour filament stls on prusaprinters or thingiverse that you can create a circular filament. Once the print is done, you can reuse the printed filament by putting it back into the machine.
That's one of ways to do it. Although I have all my test prints on display (haven't print that much of them) and fail ones usually end up in the hackspace bin for pla which gets donated to recycle place
Thanks for the great video, waiting for my zero to come in this week so I can free up my pi 4!
I'm curious about one thing. You offloaded the network load to the wired USB adapter. Did you try it with a wireless USB adapter? Or can you try it? I'd think that should provide the same load reduction.
I only ask because my machines are too far away from anywhere with wired ethernet. This house wasn't prewired, so the best I could do was to put an access point high up against a wall in another room, about 30' away. The wifi signal is fine, but the only way I'll get wired service there anytime soon is to make a wireless bridge. Not impossible, but I'd probably have to buy another RPi to do it.
I just got done converting a cheap laser engraver to running Marlin on a Creality 4.2.7 board. I'm ready for Octoprint to run there. I want to leave the machine in a closed cabinet while it runs, and use Octoprint to monitor it. Probably watching from my phone or my desktop computer in another room. I have spare WiFi adapters, USB hubs, and USB cameras. I don't have spare Raspberry Pi. And if it can work on RPi Zero 2, that seems like a good choice, and I could get my RPi 4B back from the first printer. Well, assuming that I can find a RPi for sale.
Hi
I haven't used the WiFi adapter as RPIZ2W comes with WiFi. It would be a bit pointless to close WiFi built in (which uses bandwidth of the USB hub) and add exactly the same solution via physical dongle.
Flippin' awesome
Excellent video as usual! Thank you. I will probably follow your advices for my setup!
I'm going to use these in my enclosure setup. I can't wait to get that finished.
Very good and informative video. Could you make a video showing how the setup looks when using pi cam v2 with raspberry pi zero 2 w in octoprint?
Hey very cool video! Thanks for sharing.
I have to admit that at the end I got lost of how you are powering the Raspberry.
I like the idea of the hub just to have a wired connection.
I'm still powering it just via usb cable. I do have a special charger built into my printer. Check out my printer upgrade articles about this
@@notenoughtech I just thought I will place a bucket on the power supply to feed this. And now I see your comment. I will definitely visit :D Thanks again! Great job!
I have a problem leaving the printing surface centered on the bed. I have linear guides in X that make the extruder move forward 14mm and the printing area is somewhat outside of the bed.
You need to define this in your configuration file for your marlin build. There are settings for the offset of your hotend
Just received mine. I plan to make a camera holder with the pi built in. One piece that takes less space.
Sounds good!
Just what i looked for thanks so much ! You’re the man!
Pleasure is mine - happy printing - any interesting printing plans?
I wanted to go for lithopane prints as gifts for the holidays. But i never done that before. So probably quite a bit of tinkering ahead 🙈 thanks again !
Nice and Vero informative speech. Super. Keep it like that
Thank you
If i just want to start prints wirelessly and have the printer turn off when the print is done, would the zero w be a good fit?
Yes but you will also need something to toggle the printer on off. Take a look at my Shelly 1PM video which covers that
Thanks for the video Mat. Why do some of the Octoprint videos look reversed? Keep safe and stay well.
What do you mean by reversed?
@@notenoughtech 4:24, 4:33, Upside down, 5:03, 8:39, Left to right. I may be wrong?
@@nikond90ful1 oh I know what you mean now. The streams. If you apply the filters to octoprint settings they don't apply to the raw stream. So I didn't bother much with it since they are only there to prove the point that the stream is working :)
@@notenoughtech Not a problem. Just showing I watch the video.
I always appreciate it :)
I thought I missed something important. Half of my desk broll is shot upsidedown so when someone mentions this I'm scared I forgot to flip the footage in the timeline
I am running Octoprint on a Pi 4 but the Pi Zero 2 is a real breakthrough, $15 versus $45 USA.
I'm exactly the same. Just got extra 2 boards from Raspberry Pi store from Cambridge so each printer has its own now
Could really use a video on hooking up the Zero 2 directly to the Ender 3 MCU using gpio!
Oh that would be a challenge for sure but not impossible. I'll see if I can make time for this topic in my schedule
Thanks Mat.
how many printers can you run with a single rasberrypi?
I was able to run 4 + 4 emulated on rpi4
@@notenoughtech that's pretty cool!! Do you have a video on how to run emulations?
You have about the same facial expression/body language as Maker's Muse (or vice versa ;) )
I'll take it as a compliment. He may not tho ☺️☺️☺️
wifi + octoprint is bad , from my experience
cool video as always :)
I think it's not the Octoprint's fault but the stream taking the bandwidth. Since most of us run it to keep an eye on the thing we print... it's fair to say we need the stream and therefore it's worth using an adapter