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A leftover is dirt a run left behind. Four of the checks were reporting
something else: the machine part-way through work of its own, which it
finishes on its own a few seconds later. Each one failed a run that had
done nothing wrong.
laser.arm-wait-lid found it. The test passed every check it makes and
failed on cool=smoke/armed=False/hold=False. The smoke clear is the
engine's post-job work - run duty for smoke_s after an armed session,
timed, ending by itself (cool.c, Cool_Smoke) - and the machine was idle
fifteen seconds later without being asked. Armed and hold were both
false: nothing had been left.
The four, and what each was catching:
cool a phase alone (the smoke clear, a cooldown). Armed or
holding stays a leftover: the run left a job alive and the
engine is keeping the fans up for it.
controller the supervisor's own start. A takeover ends by starting
forgectrl again, and the respawn runs the liveness probe
and the lens reference before it reports running and
verified. The run had put it back.
state the ring draining to the end of a job. An underrun stays a
leftover and is still acknowledged with cnc/stop: that one
is the run's.
leds read_led read brightness, write_led writes target, and the
smooth trigger fades brightness toward target. An LED the
machine had already released still read lit mid-fade, and
the restore called itself done before the fade had moved.
Judged on target now: a run that left the button lit left
a target standing.
The waiting, the restoring and the reporting of anything a run actually
left are unchanged. What changed is which readings count as dirt.
Host-proven: 87 baseline unit tests, two of them new - a fading button
LED is not a leftover, a lit one is.
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.
This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Glowforge.