What cameras did you add to your 3D printer? What is your favorite camera angle?
For me, the nozzle cam watching the first layer is my personal favorite (OV9281 image sensor).
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I’ve got the cheapest USB webcam money can buy plugged into my octopi. It’s attached to the desk behind the printer, pointed at the bed. It’s about good enough to see if the print has suffered catastrophic failure, and not much else.
Your image is brilliant, though. If I had something like that set up, I think I’d print garbage all day just to watch it go.
What does your mount look like for that nozzle cam?
Prusa mini: https://www.printables.com/model/121773-prusa-mini-nozzle-cam-mount-arducam-ov5647-w-m12-l
There are two generic formfactors: round/bore and square PCB/camera. Likely you will find a premade mount for your printer.
Make sure to buy a camera with adjustable focus.
Mine is a simple PiCam attached to the X servo motor so it travels up and down with the gantry running through Klipper/MainsailOS. The image quality isn’t great but good enough for the task. Some additional lighting would certainly help things out.
One bonus feature is that I’ve connected Mainsail to HomeAssistant so I can monitor and control the printer from anywhere with internet access.
Those are nice too. Decent illumination is critical. Do you have a classic ender 3-style printer where the x-axis moves up?
Had never heard of mainsail before, looks so nice !
It’s an option if you run klipper on your printer.
I did a nozzle cam setup with a cheap borescope out of eBay once, and definitely loved watching that first layer. Eventually it gave in to the heat and I haven’t bothered to replace yet though. Also multiple cameras on octopi was a bit of a pain to set up when I did it, but that was 2-3 years ago
I have several cheap USB website and they work fine but my best cam is probably the Luke’s lab USB cam I bought, it has or LEDs so it can see in the dark. I had issues with the atlas they provide for the camera case but the image from it is decent in any light which is real good.
Does anyone have any kind of nozzle camera mount for Creality Ender 3 v3 KE ?
Absolutely NOT the built in Bambu P1P/S camera. It “works”, but it sucks.
From what I understand that has more to do with the crappy lighting than the camera.
You could put a sodium vapor lamp directly over it and it would still be bad. It’s the framerate. The main board is what caps it. It’s essentially fine for It’s intended use of letting you see if you’re making spaghetti, but that’s about it
The camera in my Qidi is about the same. It averages about 8 FPS which is kind of annoying. I have not yet worked up the motivation to mount a spare Pi or something somewhere and use that as a dedicated camera processor.
