On my first babycam I used a usb-webcam, LXDE, chrome and Jitsi to get the video signal to the receiver. I needed to replace the camera and decided to buy a used raspberry pi cam (v1.3). I also printed a case for the cam but this turned the camera upside down and the jitsi picture too. While you could turn the picture with: I also was a little disturbed with the high resource consumption of the desktop and especially the jitsi session inside chrome. The pi got hot (ca. 80 degrees C) so i needed to install a fan to...
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3D printing with Ender3, Octoprint and Cura
Hi, in order to print my own PhonieBox Figurines (and out of the desire to make some experiments) i decided to buy a good and cheap 3D-Printer. After reading an testarticle about 3D Printers on Heise.de I decided to buy the open source 3D Printer Ender 3 from Creality for roughly 140,- EUR from 3DPrima. This video shows nicely how to assemble it: Octoprint So far I am really happy about it. Setting it up was fun and after a while hooked it up to Octoprint. It is an open source software that runs on a raspberry pi allows you...
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