I've Gone and Done Something Mental

[MattF]

Do they come with a psu, or do you have to buy that seperately?

Quite liking this enclosure. The industrial look.

Pi-Box Pro 4 Case (with SD access) [Discontinued]

The Pi-Box Pro 4 is a rugged industrial aluminium* enclosure kit for the Raspberry Pi 4. If you need a tough enclosure for your application, look no further! By utilising a micro-HDMI Pi4 extender board, the power and micro HDMI are located at the rear of the case alongside the Ethernet and USB...

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[Kayos]

Do they come with a psu, or do you have to buy that seperately?

Quite liking this enclosure. The industrial look.

Pi-Box Pro 4 Case (with SD access) [Discontinued]

The Pi-Box Pro 4 is a rugged industrial aluminium* enclosure kit for the Raspberry Pi 4. If you need a tough enclosure for your application, look no further! By utilising a micro-HDMI Pi4 extender board, the power and micro HDMI are located at the rear of the case alongside the Ethernet and USB...

thepihut.com

The cases that move all the connectors to one side are obviously bigger

 

[MattF]

The cases that move all the connectors to one side are obviously bigger

Size is unimportant. I've already ballsed space constraints consideration up with the printer.

 

[Barking Mat]

Size is unimportant.

It's what you do with it that counts...

Corner, beckoning....

 

[MattF]

It's what you do with it that counts...

Corner, beckoning....

As they say, it's not the size of the wand, but the magic of the magician which counts.

 

[MattF]

Also, which memory size board would be best, for the application? Biggest is best, or overkill?

 

[Kayos]

Also, which memory size board would be best, for the application? Biggest is best, or overkill?

I use 4gb but 8gb versions were not out, I think the 8 is overkill for a single use

But, overkill is my favourite kind of kill

 

[MattF]

I like your thinking.

 

[MattF]

Is it best to order a SD card with the OS preinstalled, or is it easy enough to do oneself, (bearing in mind I have no laptop currently, so it's a case of phone or nowt)?

 

[bigegg]

Is it best to order a SD card with the OS preinstalled, or is it easy enough to do oneself, (bearing in mind I have no laptop currently, so it's a case of phone or nowt)?

Order the SD card.
It *is* easy: with a PC.

 

[MattF]

Order the SD card.
It *is* easy: with a PC.

I don't know why, but every answer seems to lead to another question. If installing Octoprint(?), which size card?

 

[Kayos]

I don't know why, but every answer seems to lead to another question. If installing Octoprint(?), which size card?

Overkill....

I use either 16 or 32gb because I have lots of them, I used a 128gb to setup retropi, however it was 115gb so no choice really

 

[m_c]

Do they come with a psu, or do you have to buy that seperately?

Need to get one separate, along with a suitable USB-C cable.
However, all the official supply is, is a 2A USB power supply, so you may already have something suitable.

Is it best to order a SD card with the OS preinstalled, or is it easy enough to do oneself, (bearing in mind I have no laptop currently, so it's a case of phone or nowt)?

I ordered the starter kit, which included the pre-installed OS, but I also ordered a separate card, as I'd quite like to have a play with a generic install at some point.

I don't know why, but every answer seems to lead to another question. If installing Octoprint(?), which size card?

Not that big. Main download is under a GB, so the rest is just for storage of files.

 

[bigegg]

Need to get one separate, along with a suitable USB-C cable.
However, all the official supply is, is a 2A USB power supply, so you may already have something suitable.

And it _does_ have to be 2A plus.
Your average phone charger won't cut it

 

[MattF]

This thing is costing me a bloody fortune.

 

[Kayos]

This thing is costing me a bloody fortune.

Like all good ideas

 

[PhillipM]

I mean you don't really have to mess with a Pi and all that fluff, unless you want to run klipper, nothing wrong with just running it from the SD card as is.

 

[MattF]

What's Clipper? Main reason I've ordered it is simply because I'm not a fan of inserting/extracting sd cards constantly. I'd rather just remotely print.

 

[PhillipM]

I mean mine just plugs in the PC but drip feeding is less reliable than dropping it on the printer so I just print like that instead.

Klipper is a firmware where the accelerations and moves etc are planned in advance and the Pi just tells the printer where to move instead of calculating that itself on the fly (printer CPU's are still pretty slow)

 

[MattF]

Regarding nozzles, what's the reasoning of the different nozzle sizes? Is the 0.4 the general use size which covers all?