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Rules 24 (the pause tier, held and held again) and 27 (a stale verdict) asserted the deceleration into each hold ran lit to the stop, the stretch between the holds dark, and the cut lit after the clear, but not that the stream is dark inside a hold: the central claim of the catalog's laser.verdict-cut, which can leave the catalog once the host proves it. Rule 21 proved it only for a plain feed hold. - check_hold_dark: no FIRE tick inside a hold's stationary stretch, its edges aside (one step pulse straddles each edge: rule 21's margin, HOLD_EDGE_TICKS, 120 ticks at x8 scaled to the mode: 480 at the x32 default). - Rule 24 checks both of its holds; rule 27 checks its one hold. - check_fire_gaps runs on both sessions, as on rule 21's. - The header's rules 24 and 27 say so; their PASS lines report the held stretches. Proof: laser_stream_test passes whole on a null-sink build of the grblHAL-glowforge working tree under Linux: verdict-rehold dark while held for 22620 and 22622 ticks, verdict-stale for 22621, check_fire_gaps clean on both. A negative control on check_hold_dark: a dark 5000-tick hold passes, and one FIRE tick inside it fails. pyflakes is clean. Acceptance: none. The harness runs in grblHAL-glowforge's CI.
OpenGlow / ForgeFIRM firmware for Glowforge
BETA
ForgeFIRM is in beta. Every release below 0.1.0 is a beta release. It's stable, but you may still hit the occasional bug, 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.