I’m a huge fan of octoprint on raspberry pi. I’m not a huge fan of raspberry pi lately. I’ve heard of le potato and orange pi. Some searching shows that people have done it on both of those.

Does anyone have any experience running it on a small board computer other than raspi?

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Compared to the power consumption of your 3D printer itself, the wattage drawn by an x86 mini-PC system is a rounding error. What, 19 watts burst under “boost” conditions, and 3 to 7 watts otherwise?

    My Qidi X-Max 3 draws roughly 250 watts when printing basic PLA and its hotend and plate are at temperature. During preheat it can touch 400. And that’s without the chamber heater – that alone is rated a 300 watts.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Sure while the printer is going, but are you ever going to turn the computer off? I’m sure as hell not going to which is why idle consumption matters so much to me.