Finally got around to wiring my Ox. First moves via #Chilipeppr complete! I still need to mount the board and connect the spindle, but I need to find a good “project box” for that first.
It looks like your WebGL is crashed in that video thus the black background color inside ChiliPeppr. I’ve been seeing this happen more often on my Windows 10 box in Chrome lately. Have you?
@jlauer good eye–I was wondering about that. Not sure what I can do about it, though. Any suggestions?
@SirGeekALot that anti static bag is CONDUCTIVE! I have had customers blow their boards by placing it on them. You should remove that asap!
@Riley_Porter_ril3y Doh! Really? I suppose that makes sense, because it is designed to dissipate any static charge. I guess I just subconsciously thought since it is plastic, it must therefore be an insulator. I’ll put it on a block of wood or something like that; I don’t think putting it directly on the plastic table would be good because of potential for static charge, right?
They are pretty hearty little boards. Getting some little standoffs work nicely. I also have a 3d printable case if you want to use it. I will post it today.
Here is the case I did.
@Riley_Porter_ril3y thanks! I was going to print @dhylands TinyG V8 mount (which has a fan mount), but during the process the @MatterHackers bargain filament I was using had a section that was too thick (3.1mm+!), jammed, and then charred into a plug! So, that hot end is wrecked and my 3D printer is currently out of commission. I have an E3D v6 hot end that I will probably use to bring it back to life, but in the meantime I was thinking I might just go buy a simple plastic box and cut it to suit my needs.
Aside: I think I really need to get some sort of filament jam sensor because I’m sick and tired of off spec filament jamming when I’m not around and destroying my hot ends when it chars from sitting too long in the hot end. Grrrrr…
Why would it being charred ruin it? I’ve had my hot end charred, and I used some esun cleaning filament to clean it up.
Another alternative is to do cold pulls with nylon: nozzle-cleaning [Bukobot 3D Printer Instructions & Docs]
@dhylands wrong thread?
@Riley_Porter_ril3y I don’t think so - replying to the last comment by @SirGeekALot (at 16:48) about his charred hotend.
Oh i see. Cool.
@dhylands I went ahead and ordered some of that cleaning filament. It is cheap enough to give it a try.
@jlauer I took a look at my chrome://flags and reset everything to default, but then chilipeppr wouldn’t connect to the JSON serial port server properly (it seems to connect, but I cannot select the port). If I disable WebGL, then everything works–except the simulation UI as you’ve noticed. This is on an old Dell E1505 laptop (“Vista Capable”, but running Windows 8.1) so maybe there is some kind of driver issue? I tried using Firefox and that had the same problem as Chrome on default settings. IE was of course a complete fail. I’m open to any suggestions.
My best guess is that your graphics driver doesn’t support WebGL. I would recommend to go get a Raspberry Pi 2 and put SPJS on it and then run ChiliPeppr from your awesome personal laptop.
@jlauer Is a v2 Pi necessary, or will an old Pi model B work? Also, LOL @ “awesome personal laptop” 
A v2 Pi is necessary. The original Pi just does not have enough horsepower, although you could deal with it. The v2 Pi will only have 5% CPU used up by SPJS. The original Pi will have 90% CPU chewed up.
Wow. Ok. Sounds like it could be used in a pinch–if speeds were kept low to reduce the traffic. I guess I need to dust off the shiny new Pi2 I’ve had lying around for months without even booting it. (disclaimer: summer took precedence over my projects)
@jlauer wait a minute…if my laptop is incapable of running OpenGL properly, how does running SPJS on the Pi2 and then running Chilipeppr on the laptop solve that? Won’t my laptop still have problems rendering the Chilipeppr UI? On a related note, could I instead run both Chilipeppr in Chrome (or Chromium), and SPJS on the Pi2?
Wow sound smoot