During the coronavirus pandemic, a situation arose where we had to maximize our productivity of face Shields using 3d Printing, for medical personals. The printer was situated in a room outside my house, but I spend most of the time at my house. In order to maximize productivity, I placed this Wi-Fi-based print status indicator in my living room and as soon as the print is finished a blue LED in the NodeMCU lits up, which is seen by somebody in the household and they will go and put the next print after removing the existing 3D printed model from the heat bed.
To make this project, simply download code from theGitHub link attached, install Arduino (https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software) and esp8266 board(https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino, upload the code and connect the nodeMCU to any USB port. Make sure that the octoprint instance and nodemcu are in the same network. Assign a static IP address to octopi (https://community.octoprint.org/t/set-static-ip-without-breaking-the-plugin-manager/13556)
Using this, I was able to print 70 face shields per day, while watching Netflix series on my TV😁.
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