CR-10 RaspberryPi Ethernet Camera Mount Kit by RickB

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

I sold my CR-10S, so I will not be doing any more development / revisions to these file.
Warning: After using this for a bit myself, I'm going to go back to a standard pi camera and remote lights. The two IR LED's on each side have a metal disc on the back of them that gets really hot to the touch. Some recommend adding heat sinks to them. However these IR LED's are powered directly from the hardware of the board. You can NOT turn them off even using raspi-config or scripts. So I have elected to just not use them in this application.
See https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2797774 for the standard RPi Camera.
I remixed a few other files and borrowed one file with no changes to create this RaspberryPi Mounting kit using a Vilros Raspberry Pi case to mount a Raspberry Pi Camera to a ball joint that plugs into the Ethernet port to position the camera cleaning. This all bolts to the side of the CR-10 control box using the factory screws and places the camera for OctoPrint at a nice angle. I know some prefer to mount directly to the buildplate, but I didn't want to add the mass or deal with cable management. I do need to replace my really long USB cable with a nice compact one to clean up the install a bit more.
For better control over the web camera in OctoPrint. Try using "System Command Editor" Plug-in and creating two new menu actions that use:
"sudo service webcamd start" to Turn Camera ON
and
"sudo service webcamd stop" to Turn Camera OFF.