Gina Hoiska

Like, it's awesome.

Like, it's awesome.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah, so you already said my name, but I'm also known as Fusel around the world, especially around the net. So if anyone has come across that name, then yeah, that's me. Hi.

Yeah, so you already said my name, but I'm also known as Fusel around the world, especially around the net. So if anyone has come across that name, then yeah, that's me. Hi.

And yeah, well, Octoprint, that happened basically when I got myself a 3D printer back in late 2012 and found myself in a position that it was sitting here next to me in my home office, producing noise, producing fumes and annoying the hell out of me because I just wanted to not sit next to it while it was doing stuff, but it took hours to finish whatever it was doing.

And yeah, well, Octoprint, that happened basically when I got myself a 3D printer back in late 2012 and found myself in a position that it was sitting here next to me in my home office, producing noise, producing fumes and annoying the hell out of me because I just wanted to not sit next to it while it was doing stuff, but it took hours to finish whatever it was doing.

And so I figured there must be some way to just put it in another room, but still monitor it from afar. through Wi-Fi and such. And I figured there's probably something out there that does this. It turns out, nope, there wasn't something like this. And I happened to be a software engineer. So that became a bit of my vacation project over Christmas, pretty much.

And so I figured there must be some way to just put it in another room, but still monitor it from afar. through Wi-Fi and such. And I figured there's probably something out there that does this. It turns out, nope, there wasn't something like this. And I happened to be a software engineer. So that became a bit of my vacation project over Christmas, pretty much.

And I threw it on GitHub after that in January and thought I was done. Back then, it was just a really, really basic thing.

And I threw it on GitHub after that in January and thought I was done. Back then, it was just a really, really basic thing.

monitoring temperature, already having this feedback loop where you also had some webcam implementation and all of that to be able to see what your 3D printer was doing while it was running through your jobs and some basic file management and such, but definitely way smaller project than it is now over 10 years later.

monitoring temperature, already having this feedback loop where you also had some webcam implementation and all of that to be able to see what your 3D printer was doing while it was running through your jobs and some basic file management and such, but definitely way smaller project than it is now over 10 years later.

I threw it on GitHub and within a week or so, the emails started coming in and the feature requests started coming in. And then it took over my life. And now I've been doing it full time for almost 10 years and crowdfunded for, wait, we do have 2024 now. So that must be eight years, I think. Yeah. Eight years full time crowdfunded work.

I threw it on GitHub and within a week or so, the emails started coming in and the feature requests started coming in. And then it took over my life. And now I've been doing it full time for almost 10 years and crowdfunded for, wait, we do have 2024 now. So that must be eight years, I think. Yeah. Eight years full time crowdfunded work.

An open source project.

An open source project.

In my case, it was an Ultimaker. That was like, yeah, a big wooden box printer. No heat to bed.

In my case, it was an Ultimaker. That was like, yeah, a big wooden box printer. No heat to bed.