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dimsumlabs / k40_whisperer

Git clone of the upstream source
http://www.scorchworks.com/K40whisperer/k40whisperer.html
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Integration into VisiCut #1

Closed t-oster closed 5 years ago

t-oster commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I am the maintainer of VisiCut (https://github.com/t-oster/VisiCut), an application similar to k40 whisperer, which already supports many lasercutters. Maybe we should work together and integrate a k40 driver into VisiCut so we do not need to implement all features in both projects. However you seem to like python and I am more a Java guy, so this might not be straitforward. However adding a driver to VisiCut is as simple as https://github.com/t-oster/VisiCut/wiki/Developing-a-new-Lasercutter-Driver. Please tell me what you think. I have already users asking for K40 support (https://github.com/t-oster/LibLaserCut/issues/81)

hamishcoleman commented 6 years ago

Hey there, Firstly, we are not the original source of the K40 whisperer software - look at http://www.scorchworks.com/K40whisperer/k40whisperer.html for that. Unfortunately, he does not appear to be interested in many modern development techniques, like version control :-(

The python unit tests that I wrote cover the hardware interface parts of this software - so hopefully there is some information in them to show how to talk to the USB device and the custom protocol the cutter uses. Its not derived from any of the standard protocols unfortunately.

Hopefully some of that has been helpful to you - as you noticed, I'm not much of a Java guy, but - more importantly - I am somewhat time-poor, so I probably cannot help much on any code.

t-oster commented 6 years ago

Hi, thank you for your answer. I am also very short on time, but maybe there are some volunteers in the VisiCut community, who are willing to port the driver. I will contact the author of K40 whispere in order to get his opinion. Thank you for your quick answer.

t-oster commented 5 years ago

We will have K40 support in VisiCut soon, so this can be considered closed