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- baseline: the lid lamp fades to a new level (the kernel's smooth trigger), so the hand-back reads it until it holds the wanted level twice in a row, for up to 3 s, before it is a leftover. motion.deadman failed its hand-back reading 232 against 236 0.05 s after the supervisor re-applied 236 to a respawned controller. - setup.check-lens and setup.focus: grblHAL reads the lens window and the edge only at its start, and their restore came after the wizard had restarted the controller on the test's values. Each test now waits for the step to end, puts the settings back, and restarts the controller (stop, start, running and verified with a new pid) on every exit path; cloud mode restarts nothing. - setup.focus and setup.floor: the served program ends with G0 Z<edge>, G0 X0 Y0, G92.1, M2; setup.floor requires setup.focus and checks the scrap's thickness against the lens reach; the burns cover lenshome. - setup.check-intakes: the two assertions that could not fail are gone; an intake-count prompt fails the test unanswered (the bench reference's intakes both turn). The precheck's refusal names no setting. - setup.check-airflow: the machine's count rules (intake 2 turning writes 2; silent on a one-fan machine, the count is not written). Shared text: setup_dark.py's precheck string (all setup_dark tests, setup_burns, setup.check-envelope), setup_burns.py's imports, covers, docstring and preview check, cooling_intake.py's docstring; every test they move covers paths forgectrl changed in the same work. Proof: the forgetest host suite passes (548), with new host tests for the lamp's fade, the restarts on pass, fail and abort, the floor's Focus refusal and reach, the tail without G92.1, the intakes prompt, and the airflow count rules; pyflakes is clean on the changed modules. Acceptance: these are the tests.
OpenGlow / ForgeFIRM firmware for Glowforge
BETA
ForgeFIRM is in beta. Every release below 0.1.0 is a beta release. It's stable, but you may still hit the occasional bug, and expect frequent updates. Upgrade whenever a newer release is available, and report what you find on the community forum.
Open firmware for Glowforge brand CNC lasers. ForgeFIRM replaces the cloud-dependent factory software on the stock control board, with no hardware modification, and gives the machine a local controller, a local web control panel, and a standard Grbl interface. The factory cloud experience stays available as an option.
This repository is the base of the build and of the release: the
meta-forgefirm Yocto layer, the kas configuration, the image recipes, the
install and release scripts, the acceptance tool (forgetest/), the bench
tools (scripts/bench/), the bench actuator firmware (fixture/), and the
release artifacts (releases/).
Start here
https://docs.forgefirm.org/ is the documentation, and the source of truth for every fact about the machine and the firmware.
| Read this first | Safety |
| Put it on a machine | Installation |
| Use it | Usage, LightBurn |
| How the machine works | Technical |
| How ForgeFIRM works with it | ForgeFIRM internals |
| Build, test, release | Developers |
| Downloads | Releases |
| Questions | Community forum |
Build
kas build kas/forgefirm-glowforge.yml
Build covers the host setup, the two images, the source variant and the debug kernel. Release flow covers the pins, the push order and the signing pipeline.
Test
cd forgetest && python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v
The acceptance catalog that gates a release, and the bench tools, are on Acceptance and The bench.
Contributing
AGENTS.md carries the rules for this repository and for the project: safety ordering, proof before done, the push order, and the writing rules. They apply to human contributors too, and Contribute is the same set on the site.
What this costs
Nothing. ForgeFIRM is free in both senses, under MIT and GPL licenses. There is no paid tier, no license key, no subscription and no Pro edition. If someone offers to sell it to you, the licenses allow it, but what you take home is their build rather than this one: get it from the source.
Safety
These machines contain a CO2 laser: it burns, blinds, and starts fires. Never defeat the lid switches or the interlock. Never leave a running job unattended. Keep a fire extinguisher within reach. Read Safety before you cut your first job, and Regulatory and legal before you install.
This is experimental software. Use of it could seriously maim or kill you or others, and it may void your warranty. Use it at your own risk.
Glowforge is a trademark of Glowforge, Inc. This project is not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Glowforge, Inc.