{"id":106,"date":"2014-07-10T18:03:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T18:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2016-01-13T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:33:07","slug":"3d-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"3D-Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in one of my Twitter threads<\/a>, it’s great to have a remotely monitor-able 3D Printer Cam, so you can keep an eye on a print-in-progress while doing other work.<\/p>\n

My printing is done in another room from where I do design, email, and other routine stuff – not far away, but far enough I don’t want to keep walking back and forth to check on a long print.\u00a0 (Some of my parts take longer than an hour to print.)<\/p>\n

I had purchased a TrendNet TV-IP651WI camera from Amazon back in April to monitor some bird’s nests in our back yard, but before I could get the camera all set up, a wind-storm put an end to their propagation plans, and I found myself with a spare camera on my hands.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week I decided to try setting it up to view my Lulzbot TAZ 4 3D printer, and it’s working out pretty nicely. This particular camera is a full PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom), and though I hooked it up to the router (the room where the 3D printer is set up is also where our wireless hookup and main ink-jet printer are located), it is also wireless. TrendNet has SecurView Pro software which lets you capture and monitor one or more<\/strong> cameras, which for me is nice, since I also have TrendNet cameras monitoring the front and back yards. With my 4-monitor setup on my main computer, I can throw the remote camera on one of the upper screens, and be editing parts in FreeCAD on a lower monitor, with plenty of real estate left for my Ring Central soft phone, my iTunes player for background music, and Outlook for Email.<\/p>\n

\"TrendNet<\/a>

TrendNet camera on the left, Lulzbot 3D printer on the right<\/p><\/div>\n

\"View<\/a>

View of the camera (top, just right of center) from the bed of the 3D printer.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Remote<\/a>

Remote view of my 3D printer from the TrendNet SecurView application<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in one of my Twitter threads, it’s great to have a remotely monitor-able 3D Printer Cam, so you can keep an eye on a print-in-progress while doing other work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1,6,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/3DPrinter-Cam.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p76pQa-1I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6,"url":"https:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=6","url_meta":{"origin":106,"position":0},"title":"I'm printing 3D!","date":"June 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Retired at 60 and sitting on my butt? I don't think so! 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