- Brandon Redder
- Seth Peden
- Dylan Mauldin
- Jacob Southerland
- The invention studio has 30 3D printers
- They are each controlled by a web management system with Raspberry PI’s
- There is no easy way to physically see the statuses of the printers
- Each printer is already connected to a Raspberry Pi v3
- The status lights are ShiftBrite SPI LEDs (shift registers)
- Each printer has one light connected to it
- Initial designs for the project utilized discrete RGB LEDs or an alternate microcontroller (with embedded RGB LED)
- The lights are controlled using the PIGPIO C++ library
- Status data is pulled from a pre-existing cloud service called 3D Printer OS
- Data from 3D Printer OS is retrieved within a JSON format from their REST API