TIL: having issues with a 3D print - but because I'm having issues I'm sat at the computer fiddling with other stuff as it prints. I think what's going on is the slicing program is feeding the printer data "just in time", rather than the whole thing or big chunks.
So me sitting there to monitor it, and watching Youtube and playing with Blender, may be *causing* the issues. Pop the print file on a USB stick and plug it into the printer directly, and it's far better.
@_thegeoff or drive the printer from a dedicated computer, such as a @raspberry_pi .
@simon_brooke @raspberry_pi Yup, but a RasPi isn't going to play nicely with Blender, so just popping a memory stick in cuts out the middle man.
@_thegeoff @simon_brooke @raspberry_pi
An idea (I'm not entirely sure if that's what Simon meant) is not to run blender and slicer there, but to slice it on your desktop, and cause the raspi to feed the sliced file to the printer.
octoprint is a tool that does that (imo well), and at least PrusaSlicer has integration with it, insofar you can tell it "send the sliced gcode to the remote octoprint and command it to start printing it".
