3D design and printing.
Many devices use USB to serial bridge ICs like the FT232, CH340 or CP2102. Not only micro-controller developer boards like the Arduino, but 3D printers or RC remotes and some flight controllers as well. Some µCs have even integrated USB interfaces and don’t need these chips at all. All these devices use a serial interface…
Most OctoPrint installations out there, will, most likely, run with an ready baked OctoPi image file for the Raspberry Pi. This is obviously the most straight forward approach to get OctoPrint up and running. Still, there are good reasons to run it on a regular machine. You may already run a home server or other…
Note, that there is a newer version of this article available. This is a “work in progress”, which I have tested for a few months. It workes fine, but there could be issues not yet found. Especially when installing or removing additional Python packages. This article is based on my other article about setting up…
Note, that there is a newer version of this article available. Most OctoPrint installations out there, will, most likely, run with an ready baked OctoPi image file for the Raspberry Pi. This is obviously the most straight forward approach to get OctoPrint up and running. Still, there are good reasons to run it on a…
