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bdring / Grbl_Esp32

A port of Grbl CNC Firmware for ESP32
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I use a laser engraver, does this project support controlling air assist in LightBurn? #1243

Open jianjinliao opened 2 years ago

jianjinliao commented 2 years ago

I use a laser engraver, does this project support controlling air assist in LightBurn? I did not find relevant support。

Avataar120 commented 2 years ago

Hello, yes for sure. M7 or M8 commands can trigger an output and therefore can drive a relay Lightburn will issue M7 or M8 command if you request that in your layer

I have designed a controller dedicated to laser machines with integrated relay that is driven by those M7 / M8 commands issued by Lightburn. You can search for FluidNC K40 on google for instance to see how it looks like.

Note : I suggest to directly use FluidNC project instead of GRBL ESP32 which is not anymore supported by the dev team.