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The acceptance test for forgectrl's machine lease. The switches check is started and left waiting at its first prompt: it moves nothing, and it holds the lease for as long as it waits. /status must name it as the holder (wizard:switches, kind hardware), and everything that asks the lease must be refused with 409 and the holder's name: a diagnostic, the dose-curve recorder, a log export, a mode switch to the mode already in force, POST /controller/start, and POST /settings, the last with "settings are locked". Only requests that would do no harm if the lease failed are made: no reboot, no boot-slot change, no update job; and whatever a failed refusal may have started is stopped on the way out. The check is then aborted: the lease must read free, POST /settings must be accepted again, and the event stream, open through all of it, must have reported lease.changed with the owner and then with null. Passes on the bench reference. The nested hold (a diagnostic under its cooling wizard) is setup.check-flow-verify's to exercise, and it passes there with /status reading diag:flow-verify under wizard:cooling.flow-verify through the run. The unit suite passes (418). It covers forgectrl's src/lease.*, src/main.c, src/status.*, src/wizdark.*, src/diag.*, src/curverec.*, src/update.*, src/logs.*, src/super.*, and src/events.*.
OpenGlow / ForgeFIRM firmware for Glowforge
BETA
ForgeFIRM is in beta. Every release below 0.1.0 is a beta release. Expect problems, 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.