You will then need to wait a moment as the Pi boots, and then you will need to find out the IP address that has been assigned to your Pi. If all went well you should be greeted with a green status LED! Lastly, connect the power cable to the Pi: Once ejected plug all of your hardware into each other.Ĭonnect the OTG cable to the Pi and your printer: Once completed save the file (ctrl + s) and close it. Where the quotes in the password here line you will need to enter your WIFI password. Where the quotes in the SSID line are you will need to enter your WIFI network name. You will need to delete the # sign in front of the “iface wlan0”, “wireless-ssid” and “wireless-key” line: Right click the file and open it in Wordpad:īrowse down to the line with “WPA/WPA2 Secured” Once the image has been written open your SD card and browse to the file called “octopi-network: If successful you should see a “write complete” which means the image was successfully installed. Then click the folder, browse to where you extracted Octoprint and select it.Īfter that hit “Write” and it will begin to write the image to your SD card. Under device you will need to click the drop down menu to select your micro SD card. Once installed connect your micro SD card to your computer and open up Win32DiskImager: When Win32DiskImager has completed downloading it just install it like you would with any software. I recommend your desktop so it is easy to find. Once you have downloaded those two things you will need to first extract Octoprint somewhere. Now that you have the hardware lets get the software we need: Micro USB Cable/Wall Charger (To power the Pi) Raspberry Pi Zero W ( Here is a link for both the Pi Zero W and Power supply for it) If you are like me and just want a cost effective way to print without USB cables then lets get started! If you do plan to use webcams to stream video and monitor your prints live then you will need to go with a Pi 3 as the Pi W does not have the computing power to efficiently stream while printing wireless. I decided to swap out my Pi 3’s for Pi W’s so that I can use the more powerful Pi 3’s for projects that can take advantage of their processing power.īefore starting this I do want to note that I do not run webcams with Octoprint I just use them to print wireless. However, I recently got my hands on four Pi Zero W’s which are about one third of the cost. Up until now I have been running Raspberry Pi 3’s to do this which have worked extremely well.
It allows me to print wireless from any computer or phone in my house. I love Octoprint and have been running it on multiple 3D printers for well over two years now.
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