Community Spotlight

Community spotlight: Makerbot(clone) support via a plugin

It's not a secret that OctoPrint so far lacked support for Makerbot printers and their clones (e.g. Flashforge) and that I wasn't going to do anything about that due to various reasons (the most prominent one being no access to a machine to test with, but admittedly also some other reservations). With the arrival of the plugin system in OctoPrint's development branch +Mark Walker took it upon himself to change that and with "GPX" [1] developed a plugin around the "gpx" tool, which converts GCODE to the x3g format used by these printers. Mark has the plugin do this on the fly, basically having it act as a translation layer between OctoPrint itself and the serial port connected to the printer and thus allowing FlashForge and Makerbot printers up until Gen5 (read: Replicator 2 being the last one) to work together with OctoPrint.
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Release

New release: 1.1.2

While I'm currently fully focused on getting 1.2.0 (aka the devel branch) release ready and out of the door as soon as possible, I nevertheless just pushed a new release of the master branch.
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Release

New release: 1.1.1

Since releasing 1.1.0 back in early September there have been a couple of small fixes and improvements on the master branch that I've decided to roll into a new official (very minor) release.
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Release

New release: 1.1.0

Just pushed and tagged on master :) I'd normally now write a looooong wall of text here about what's in there, but that's what the shiny new CHANGELOG is for in the future, so read it up here: 
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