Once you have a working IMG of the RepRapWeb application on your Raspberry PI you probably want to get it tricked out so you can get to controlling your 3D printer. This is a short description of what I did…

When login on to your image the login / password is not your standard one, it’s pi / raspbian. After the image was created I connected it to the network by hardwire to setup my static IP and WIFI. I used a “EDIMAX wireless 802.11 nano USB Adapter” and that worked great for me. Here is the link I used as a reference http://raspberrypihq.com/how-to-add-wifi-to-the-raspberry-pi/

My interfaces file looks like this and my static ip is 192.168.1.97

just run “sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces” make the changes and your ready to disconnect you hard connection.

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auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static

address 192.168.1.97

netmask 255.255.255.0

network 192.168.0.0

broadcast 192.168.1.255

gateway 192.168.1.0

auto wlan0

allow-hotplug wlan0

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wpa-ssid “wifiname”

wpa-psk “password”

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OK my next step was streaming video because lets face it you need to see what your doing. This takes a little while but the directions I found are great. Just go to http://jacobsalmela.com/raspberry-pi-webcam-using-mjpg-streamer-over-internet/ and follow those instructions. You want to follow the instructions to set it up as a service.

** A little disclaimer at this point, as if this writing the reprapweb application does not have a video feed embedded in it. I talked to Andrew and he said he’s working on that now and it should be done soon. Until then you have to run a separate browser window for your video streaming. Not a big deal as mjpg_streamer has a default stream running on port 8080 so once your set up it’s a snap to use.