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On my last blog post, just as I was about finished, I found a link to my old blog post called “PrintrBot,” I noticed that in that blog post, I had taken a time-lapse video of a print. It looked better quality then the Octoprint camera I have now, so I thought it would look better if I could use my old iPod touch for the Octoprint camera. I did some googling and found a forum asking the same question, and the answer was yes! You could use an iPod or iPhone as a camera for Octoprint. So I followed the steps. The first step I did was go onto the App Store on the iPod and found an IP webcam app and downloaded it. Once that was done, I opened the app. It showed the IP address I needed to go to to view the live stream. And then I hopped back onto my computer and typed in the address. It had worked. It showed the camera feed from the iPod. So far, so good, then I went to Octoprint and installed a plugin called multi-cam, a plugin for monitoring separate cameras and quickly adding webcams to Octoprint. Once that was done, I added a new camera and typed in the IP address, but it did not load. The reason was (which I found out a few frustrating hours later) because the IP had linked to a place where it had settings and other stuff but what Octoprint wanted was the Video stream direct IP instead of a site with a ton of controls. The way I got the direct address to the video stream was by right-clicking the video feed and then clicking “Copy Image Address.” and pasting that address into the stream URL on the multi-cam control panel, and it worked now I can use both cameras. Here is a picture of the control panel with the iPod video stream on:

Today I ordered an Ender-3 3D printer off of eBay. My brother Nicholas (who let me borrow his Ender-3 and his PrintrBot back in march) is going to take the printer back, and so he helped me find another one on eBay, Me and Nicholas found an ender-3 on eBay for about $200 by a trusted seller (), and I purchased it. I can’t wait for it to arrive! Once it comes I will have to assemble it, so I have watched a couple of tutorial videos on building an ender-3. Here is probably my favorite one that found: https://youtu.be/me8Qrwh907Q

There is an online multiplayer shooter game called Krunker. I have been playing Krunker since November last year. Krunker is a first-person shooter game that has the appearance of Minecraft because of the blocky characters and some of the game maps. And what I like the most about the game is that the community can post maps (like arena’s, infection tag maps, etc.). The way you can create and publish a map is pretty easy. The first thing is to go to their online map editor. And there are objects you can make like cylinders, cubes, ramps, etc. With that, you can create some cool maps that other players can play. And there are also clans in the game that you can get invited to if you make good maps. The game modes for maps vary from “Free for all” to “Infection tag.” I started making maps earlier this year. One that I have created is called: “TradeJail,” it is a Prison themed map that is dedicated for the game-mode “Trade” where players can trade their weapon skins for other players’ skins. Here is a picture of the editor: 

Today I decided to check out the different Octoprint 3rd-party client apps on the Apple app store. The first one I tried was called:

Kraken

Kraken was not that bad actually, but one problem I noticed was that when you pressed the movement controls, you would have to push them twice for it to respond.

OctoPod:

One thing I noticed with this app is that it was compatible with Siri, which meant I could tell Siri to start printing something on my printer file list. I also really liked the colors and the layout of the app; it felt very clean. 

OctoShell:

This one did not work. And it felt like an old layout, the font was older. And there were no options or any customization.

3DPC “Your Printer’s Companion App.”

I like this one actually because it felt like I was in more control of my printer. And most of the controls were on the same page, and there were many customizable settings.

OctoClient lite

This one I did not like so much because most of the tools did not work unless you paid for the pro version.

Summary

Most of the apps had a pro version where you could pay to unlock features. But I think I will stick to using the web instead, if I had to choose an app out of all of them I would choose 3DPC because of how much control I have on that app. This is a picture of OctoPrint on the web: