David Zwart

Hey there, welcome to the second installment of our blog series! If this is your first time diving into the FDMM server, we're excited to have you on board! 😄

📆 What Happened This Week (OctoPrint related)​

This week, OctoPrint released a minor update, version 1.9.0. A big shoutout to all the contributors who made this release possible! You can check out the details of the release 1.9.0.

One of the notable improvements in this release is the performance boost in the file list API. We've already implemented measures to address this issue in FDMM, but this update will make our server even quicker regardless! 😊 Additionally, OctoPrint now supports multi-file upload, which could come in handy for us in the future. It's definitely something we'll keep in mind!

Apart from the performance enhancements, the OctoPrint team also fixed several annoying bugs in the announcements and wizard sections during setup. They even introduced a new webcam stack, which might interest you if you're in need of webcam functionality. Personally, I don't utilize it, but it's worth checking out!

Hey you there! So I thought it fun to write a bit about the coding aspect of FDM Monster in a blog style. I've been wanting to share the progress in a mini article like this, so you can follow the work a bit.

📆 What happened in May so far?​

Another project, called OctoFarm, decided to call it quits, which was not unexpected given the silence on github. Even though this ending was not unexpected, it was still announced abruptly. After the announcement a small shift in the OctoPrint 3D Farm Print software ecosystem happened. Suddenly, it struck me, @Dyrant and @Tobikiss that a replacement could be found in FDM Monster. After quite some chats with those fine aforementioned people and interesting folks like @tideline3d and @WindArrow, it was clear that FDM Monster (FDMM for short) needs a lot of improvements in order to get mature for the public. Documentation, a login system, more grid customization, a raspberry pi image (MonsterPi) and minor bugfixes were some of the topics.

After these talks, a wave of people arrived into this discord and the Github suddenly showed a steady increase in view counts and clones. This gave me a big boost to work harder as now there are users using the software in their daily life, depending on it and in need of new features and expansion. It's so nice to see the project take off!