Vinyl cutting

[nhjansen (Neil Jansen)]

The plotter cutter page indicates that there’s a raspberry pi to connect to so that you can print over WiFi.

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Browser-based control

Plug the computer end of the USB cable into the Raspberry Pi Zero W taped under the cutter, and ensure that the board is powered and a green light is visible.
Then you can upload an HPGL file from any device connected to the SLMS WiFi by visiting http://slmsvinyl.ddns.net/

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I think this is now incorrect, so direct cable from computer is only way to go via USB.

Has anyone done this recently? Would love to use it for some stuff!

[asander1 (Andy Sanderson)]

Pi should still be there, @Kyle mounted it inside the cutter with a loopback.

It is possible the dynamic dns has failed…

[nhjansen (Neil Jansen)]

K great! Yeah there’s something inside, no longer taped under. Will update tool page.

[james-c (James Croft)]

I used it (via the Pi) about a month ago but it may have stopped working since. You need to plug the USB of the PI into the vinyl cutter so it’s powered and then wait a min for it to start responding to requests to http://slmsvinyl.ddns.net/

[nhjansen (Neil Jansen)]

Have updated that little section! Thanks all.

[Kyle (Kyle Barker)]

Thanks all for jumping in! I moved off a dynamic dns provider in November but missed the tool page update. I’ve now fixed that. Can you try http://vinyl.space.southlondonmakerspace.org/ a couple minutes after plugging in the pi?

Easy Vinyl Cutting

There was a problem with the dynamic DNS service we were using. We still can’t reconfigure our internal router so I have created a public A record for http://vinyl.space.southlondonmakerspace.org and configured the pi to use an static IP. I have tested it and its working!