Are you mesmerized by an active 3D printer like I am? Can you stare for hours watching the robotic arm move back and forth as it slowly builds a model millimeter by millimeter? If so, then I have a fun little new option with my printer – a live feed that runs pretty much all the time, and can let just about anyone watch the excitement *. This should work with any browser, though I can’t vouch for the overall performance (the system is running on old equipment that I cobbled together for this experiment – a Raspberry Pi 2 and an old webcam). You can also poke around the OctoPrint management software, and see more of the details, though you should not be able to affect much of anything.
http://3dprint.wijbrandus.com/webcam/?action=stream
* – “excitement” is a relative term, watching a live 3D printer is very much not exciting.
