1. Introduction
3D Printing have once became a trend few years ago, and it caught my interest. Since 2015, I built 3 3D printers of different structures, and the streak end because of a pre-university course offer letter that asked me to go 160km away from my house(damn). So I have stop expanding the number of 3D printers in my house(luckily). With years of immersion with it, I understand the whole process from beginning to end for an object to be shaped deeply, it is a long and boring process that no one will interested in.
3D printing makes peoples interested with it but I am sure the process itself alone won’t! An object normally will takes 4 to 6 hours to be printed, and the times varies with size and complexity of the object. NO ONE WILL PATIENT ENOUGH TO WATCH THIS SHIT. In order to demonstrate the whole process, and caught people interests with it, here come the timelapse for 3D printing, a.k.a solution for impatient people to appreciate the boring but beautiful process.
2. Methods
To create 3d printing timelapse, you have two options, first is to use a DSLR and a remote shutter. Let the shutter connected to the 3d printer controller board, and trigger the shutter for every layer change. The wiring can refer to the diagram below:
Second option is use timelapse feature that included in OctoPrint. This feature is very user-friendly, and only took seconds to set up. You may use raspberry pi camera or USB webcam. Just hook up your camera and we are ready to go for next step.
In OctoPrint interface, go to Timelapse tab and choose your preferred configuration and then finally Save changes. Timelapse will be automatically created when next time you started your printing.
3. Results and Discussion
This is part of how 3D printing is printing the object, look at that, how slow it is, “confirm no one want to watch la”. So here come the timelapse 😀
This 1 minute short video is actually 4 hours behind the scene. After four hours of waiting, and finally the results is done, and it is satisfied.
But today I not just going to share only one timelapse video, please don’t leave and watch the video below.
There is one more video.
4. Conclusion
I hope that with these creation of timelapse could have deploy interests about 3D printing on public, especially the readers here. Thanks for reading till the end, if you like the post, please share the blog and subscribe to my youtube channel.