[TriEmbed] Wireless Camera for 3D Printer
Michael Fulbright
mike.fulbright at pobox.com
Fri Apr 3 16:56:34 CDT 2015
There is this (I haven't tried it yet):
http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-to-build-and-run-mjpg-streamer-on-the-raspberry-pi
It uses 'mjpg-streamer' to create an MJPEG stream a browser can view.
Michael Fulbright
On 4/3/2015 5:29 PM, pete at soper.us wrote:
> The video stream pushing part is very commo ly done, but be careful to
> use software known to work with the RPI camera. Motion (in standard
> distros) still doesn't and I found the "pipe one instance of VLC into
> a other" aproach to be a complete mess, now matter how low I went with
> ftame rates. There was some kind of (missing) flow control problem
> causing longer and longer latency between motion and output by the
> remote VLC. Equal parties hilarity and frustration.
>
> Pete
>
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Glen Smith" <mrglenasmith at gmail.com>
> To: "Dishit Parekh" <dpparekh at ncsu.edu>
> Cc: "TriEmbed Discussion" <triembed at triembed.org>
> Subject: [TriEmbed] Wireless Camera for 3D Printer
> Date: Fri, Apr 3, 2015 5:14 PM
>
> If you add the camera to the Pi, I assume that the Pi could push the
> camera data over a USB WiFi adapter. Thus you could use a single port
> to both view the camera and have some control of the printer via GPIO
> ports & relays on the Pi or whatever the OctoPrint software interface is.
>
> Glen
>
> On Apr 3, 2015 5:02 PM, "Dishit Parekh" <dpparekh at ncsu.edu
> <mailto:dpparekh at ncsu.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hi Glen,
>
> Thanks for all the awesome suggestions. I was preferring wireless
> connection because at NC State to activate a ethernet port if it
> has been inactive for a while, it takes about 100 bucks or so. I
> hence wanted to just stick in a wireless network adapter and get
> the ball rolling. :-)
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Glen Smith
> <mrglenasmith at gmail.com <mailto:mrglenasmith at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> The Pi cam does come with a short cable, but other lengths are
> available from adafruit:
> http://www.adafruit.com/products/2087
>
> Is there a particular reason you want to go wireless?
>
> On Apr 3, 2015 11:40 AM, "Michael Fulbright"
> <mike.fulbright at pobox.com <mailto:mike.fulbright at pobox.com>>
> wrote:
>
> I use a Logitech C510 webcam on my ubuntu laptop
> controlling a 3d printer. I run 'motion' and have it
> setup a streaming port that you can view with any modern
> browser and no extra software. Just be sure to disable
> all the motion detection - the streaming will still work.
> Otherwise it will go nuts filling your disk taking video
> and snapshots of your printer moving around. On my
> ancient laptop streaming 1280x1024 @ 50% quality and 2 fps
> it uses only about 30% CPU. You can watch the stream on
> a tablet or smartphone also which gives nice flexibility.
>
> For the Pi as Dan mentioned you will probably want to use
> the MotionEye frontend for motion to utilize the very nice
> Raspberry Pi camera. I would still consider a simple
> webcam for your application just because it allows you
> more freedom for optimal placement since a webcam will
> have at least a 6 ft cord instead of the 6 inch flex cable
> you have with the Pi camera.
>
> Michael Fulbright
>
> On 4/3/2015 10:37 AM, Dishit Parekh wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am using a CubePro Trio 3d Printer from 3D Systems in
>> my lab at NC state and wish to control it wirelessly from
>> an outdoor location (home, office, etc.). I am planning
>> to use the OctoPrint <http://octoprint.org> software for
>> the controlling part with a Raspberry Pi. Can you suggest
>> me some good cameras to monitor the activity of my 3d
>> printer for the same. Thank you! :)
>>
>> --
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Dishit Parekh
>> /PhD Student - 2nd Year,/
>> /External VP, //CBE GSA//
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>> North Carolina State University, USA./
>> *Phone (M):* (919) 888-8274 <tel:%28919%29%20888-8274>,
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