Print server with web user interface for real-time image control and monitoring of a 3D printer using open source tools

• Published in: 2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI) pp. 1 - 4
• Main Authors: Sanchez, G. Andres G., Vaca, A. Robert, Manzano, Santiago, Guachimboza, Marco V., Sanchez Guerrero, Javier, Gomez, A. Hector F., Noriega, Veronica
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: AISTI 01.06.2017
• Subjects: 3D print; Monitoring; OctoPi; Open Source; Print Server; Printers; Raspberry Pi; RepRap; Robots; Servers; Solid modeling; Streaming media; Three-dimensional displays
• DOI: 10.23919/CISTI.2017.7975957

3D printing is a production process that has existed for three decades but its massive appearance is more recent. RepRap is a project created with the goal that more people have access to a open source low cost 3D printer. This research has been conducted based on knowledge shared by this community following their guidelines in order to take a step forward in the development of technology and cooperate with their spreading. The research has developed a prototype with a more flexible control system that allows the user a real-time control and video monitoring of the 3D printer processes through a browser from anywhere in the LAN, the control system is deployed in a reduced size computer called Raspberry Pi which could replace a PC, this control is done by implementing a print server installed on a credit card-sized single-board computer called Raspberry Pi which replace a PC and is integrated in the printer case with all the benefits generated such as the mobility an independency from other.