We have one week left in our 3D printer project Indiegogo campaign for Albuquerque's

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We have one week left in our 3D printer project Indiegogo campaign for Albuquerque’s makerspace, Quelab. If you’d like to chip in, we thank you!
http://www.indiegogo.com/quelabprinter?c=home

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You can save a lot if you replace that $300 “dedicated computer” with a Raspberry Pi. With #Octoprint, it’ll even print over the Network!

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@Thomas_Sanladerer , there doesn’t happen to be a good set of instructions/wiki for that anywhere, is there?

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Specifically for Octoprint or generally for setting up a RasPi for a RepRap?

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I have to admit, I’m ignorant as to what Octoprint is, but I’m interested in setting up the Pi for a RepRap.

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Octoprint was formerly known as PrinterWebUi - there’s plenty of info under that name on G+. It’s a substitute for pronterface and exposes a nice web interface from the RasPi.
Basically, setting up a RasPi for RapRap isn’t drastically different to doing the same thing on any other Linux PC. All you do is go through the generic initial RasPi setup and then apt-get all the stuff needed for PrintRun (if that’s what you want to use).
Complete setup instructions for PrinterWebUi are on github: https://github.com/foosel/PrinterWebUI .
The one downside to a “real” computer is that you can’t slice your files on the RasPi - i just doesn’t have enough processing power / RAM. But that’s a 15-second job that you can do on any other computer and then upload the .gcode to the PI.

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Awesome, thanks for the info!