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wait_quiet took the machine as quiet after 8 s without the start of a motion, a park, a run or a lens homing. Between a lid image and its next move the service is working on the image and the log is silent, and on the bench reference the re-hunt's moves came 9.6 s apart: cloud.mode-switch switched back to GRBL mode in the middle of the re-hunt, twice, the first time canceling a motion at 988 of its 1002 steps. Every line of a service action now counts as activity: the requests, the image uploads, the action ends, the runs, the parks, the motions and the lens homing. The quiet is 30 s. Over 1901 motion, lid-image and hunt requests in the bench reference's logs, half came within 1.6 s of the line before, 99 percent within 12.8 s, and two after more than 30 s (32.8 and 62.2 s). return_head goes: cloud.mode-switch hands its cloud stretch back through the cloud client's log (homeoff.cloud_mode_return), and nothing else called it. RETURN_MAX_MM moves to homeoff, its one user. Proof: tests/test_cloud_suite.py's new case lands a motion, a lid image 0.8 s later and the next move 1.6 s after the motion, with the quiet at 1 s: the quiet comes after the move. With the old activity marks it is declared after the image, before the move. forgetest 499 OK. Acceptance: cloud.mode-switch gates the change on a machine, its re-hunt waited out before the switch back. The fingerprints of every test in suite/cloud.py and of every module that imports from it move: 29 tests, the cloud tests, events.button-telemetry, the exthost tests, homing.cloud-offsets and setup.check-envelope.
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.