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The supervisor holds every controller spawn until the enclosure is closed (forgectrl 0.1.25), and the test opened the lid before it asked for the cloud controller: POST /mode answered "waiting, the lid is open" and the controller never came up. The round trip now switches with the lid closed, polls /mode five times a second, and opens the lid the moment the controller is running. The client requests its connect-time hunt a few seconds after its start, right behind its session, so the hunt still finds the lid open. The order is recorded and judged: the hunt's request line must not be in the client's log when the lid reads open (hunt_before_lid_open), and the test refuses to start with the lid open. The catalog text tells the operator to open the lid at once, with a hand ready on it. Proof. Host: test_cloud_suite drives the round trip with the hunt landing only once the lid reads open, as on the bench, plus the lost race (the hunt requested before the lid opened fails the test with "before the lid was open") and the start with the lid open refused; 8 mode-switch cases green. Bench reference (dev image 20260915001814, forgectrl 0.1.25): cloud.mode-switch PASS in 118 s, the lid open 4 s before the client requested its hunt, no refusal before the hunt's end, the lens homed, the exhaust row unjudged, 5 service motions after the lid closed, $H under gfhome homed in 48.4 s with 9 motion windows. No catalog consequence beyond the test itself: its covers map is unchanged.
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.