I’ve been thinking for a while that I should do this. But the logistics escaped me until I saw an instructable on using an old Android phone add a webcam and I thought, “I have an old Android phone, I should do this”. So I did and now the workbench is live. And by live I mean whenever I print something interesting. You can follow me on Twitter to know when a broadcast is going to happen, but I suspect this will be most interesting to people when I do prints for them.
Besides setting up the phone the challenge of this was building a rig to hold the phone. I iterated every part of this before it worked. It’s available on youmagine, but unless you have my specific phone and my specific printer and a set of the bolts, nuts, and washers similar to what I happened to have laying around I don’t see anyone making this specific rig. But it works for me. Ah, 3D printing, jury rigging with style.
Now you can watch Joes3DWorkbench and view past prints now on UStream. I’ve also added a widget to the blog.
