For the record, Hugo Drax was the name of the billionaire #JamesBond villain in #Moonraker whose solution was to kill off most of humanity and send his chosen few into space
The fact that you paid for your 3D printer doesn't mean that any of that money reached the developers giving their time to create and maintain the software it runs.
The rule of thumb is that if you use free open-source software, please consider sponsoring the developers and maintainers of said software.
So, die Logitech C615 scheint an #Crowsnest mit #Klipper zu funktionieren. Die Settings sind etwas tricky, weil das mit dem Autofocus nicht so einfach einzustellen ist.
I am very happy I finally did mine. I designed my own mount and light, which was great! I hover printer thin defusers in white ABS to slide over, which are just a layer or 2 too thick. We need to redo them just with 2 or 3 0.2mm layers as the light is too soft now.
I also use it as a mood light😂 I just love my dark room at night with just my enclosure lights on. It looks like a fireplace and just gives my room this great feeling.
You can automate them with #Moonraker and #Klipper. Mine automatically turns on at the start of a print and turns off at the end of a print.
#MandicReally on Youtube compared building a #Voron or running #Klipper to being an advanced 3D printing topic and implementing CAN bus to be even a step higher.
I am no beginner at electronics and I found serial to be thw failure of a few prints and I2C and SPI to also fail at larger distances, for obvious reasons, it is not what they are meant for.
I feel CAN bus has become the more mature communication protocol in Klipper and is quite popular in many new add-on boards and 3rd party expansions to your printer.
Has this been the experience for others who have either installed such boards or implemented their own code, Klipper, or even #Moonraker add-ons? Is it really such a pain, show I use it for my custom implementations, or should I just go the #MQTT route for a custom enclosure to control fans, heating, and lights?
I currently have half of my enclosure being controlled by my #RaspberryPi, such as the temperature sensors and my relay board and the other half by an #ESP32.
The ESP32 is used for the RBDDimmer library for #Arduino to control an AC di.mer for my heating. So #Klipper and #Moonraker communicate with an #MQTT broker to set temperature targets, and it responds.
I am considering, connecting an Arduino ATmega328P to just run the dimmers and then control it with my own custom Klipper code over SPI, to simplify the setup, reduce the wires going around and basically only have a Raspberry Pi with a single small added chip.
But I might want to move stuff around and CAN might be better for the distance, but MQTT would be even easier. Should I go CAN or stay with MQTT? Using CAN would require 2 additional CAN bus boards, or I would need to build it with 2x TJA1050 and MCP2515 chips, which could be fun.