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The baseline has always examined the machine after every run and recorded what the run left behind. It did nothing else with it: the leftovers went to the log and the evidence, and the test still reported PASS. So a check could measure correctly, walk away with the machine in a state nobody chose, and be recorded green. That is how the purge fan came to be left off by the airflow check. The leftover was not even watched, but had it been, it would have been noted and the test would have passed anyway, and an operator would still have met the airflow hold at their first fire. A post-run leftover now fails the run. One the baseline put back fails it too: the restore is the bench cleaning up after a defect, not the defect's absence. The message names what was left. The baseline watches the head as well as the motion side now: purge air on, which is how the machine idles, and the lens motor at its hold current in half step, which the lens checks and the sheet cards take and must hand back. The airflow check proves the machine is whole rather than merely measured: afterward the purge fan must read commanded-on and must draw above the floor the check itself just wrote. The pin takes forgectrl 0.1.13 (a2d73ef), which restores the idle posture after a diagnostic, fixes the lens session's takeover flag, and gives the setup a Download logs button, since the panel's Logs tab is unreachable until the setup is complete. Expect this to find things. A test that has been handing the machine back imperfectly has been passing until now, and the first campaign under the rule is where that shows.
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.