List of Firmware

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This page is an attempt to summarize ALL the firmware I can find in this gadawful mess of a wiki. From here on down is the authoritative list of firmwares:

FiveD

Author(s)
Triffid Hunter
Status
active as of June 22, 2011
Short Description
From what I can tell, this is the granddaddy of all firmwares. It appears to be the original G-code interpreter from where everything is forked. It looks like development is still active.

Features

  • stepper extruder
  • extruder speed control
  • movement speed control
  • RepRap-style acceleration
  • thermocouples
  • heated build platforms

Compatible Electronics

How to download

It's my understanding that as of July 6, the sourceforge repo for all official reprap stuff is getting switched over to github so for now, it can be checked out from sourceforge by running the command:

svn co https://reprap.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/reprap/trunk/software/firmware

or to check it out from github, run:

git clone https://github.com/reprap/firmware.git

The firmware is in the FiveD_GCode Directory

Documentation & Misc. Notes

Documentation is over at Microcontroller firmware installation

Someone says there are preconfigured sources on the Gen7 page but I don't see any. A link would be helpful here.


Tonokip

Author(s)
johnnyr
Status
updates up to January, 2011
Short Description
Tonokip is a firmware rewrite based off of the Hydra-mmm firmware.

Features

  • Same as FiveD???
  • Can read SD cards???

Compatible Electronics

How to download

The real repository appears to be downloadable by running

git clone https://github.com/johnnyr/Tonokip-Firmware.git

HOWEVER, for some reason, it's also in a subfolder along with the FiveD firmware. So it looks like you can run

git clone https://github.com/reprap/firmware.git

and the firmware is in the Tonokip_Firmware Directory

Documentation & Misc. Notes

Appears to have been forked off as Sprinter firmware

Sprinter

Authors
Kliment, caru, tonok, tesla893
Status
Active as of July 5, 2011
Short Description
forked from tonokip. Seems to be a popular firmware

Features

  • SD card reader
  • stepper extruder
  • extruder speed control
  • movement speed control
  • constant or exponential acceleration
  • heated build platforms

Compatible Electronics

How to download

Can download like this:

git clone https://github.com/kliment/Sprinter.git

Documentation & Misc. Notes

Only documentation seems to be over at Sprinter

  • Was formerly called Klimentkip/caruKlip
  • Supposedly aka Tesla but I can't find any references in the wiki to that
  • thermocouples are experimental


Teacup

Authors
Triffid_hunter, Traumflug, jakepoz
Status
Active as of July 5, 2011
Short Description
This was a complete rewrite of the FiveD firmware to optimize it for Arduino's wimpy 8-bit CPU

Features

  • Has better performance due to
  • written in C instead of C++
  • only uses integer math
  • minimizes long math interruptions
  • stepper extruder
  • extruder speed control
  • movement speed control
  • RepRap-style acceleration
  • start-stop ramping
  • thermocouples
  • heated build platforms

Compatible Electronics

How to download

Can download like this:

git clone https://github.com/triffid/Teacup_Firmware.git

Documentation & Misc. Notes

Documentation and more information is over at github and on the wiki under Teacup Firmware.

Supposedly there are the instructions on the Gen7 electronics page on how to get Teacup installed but I can't find them. A link would be helpful here.

  • this firmware was ported to ARM Cortex-M3 for the HBox_RepRap_Electronics.
  • DC motor control is present but untested
  • contains a constant acceleration implementation based on this article


Makerbot

Author(s)
Who knows
Status
active as of Jun 29, 2011
Short Description
The v2 makerbot firmware is a rewrite of the old Gen3 firmware to be a little more robust.

Features

Compatible Electronics

How to download

Download from Makerbot's github repo using the commands

git clone https://github.com/makerbot/G3Firmware.git

Documentation & Misc. Notes

The v2 firmware is where all active development takes place. See the Makerbot wiki for details on how to build and install the code.


Generation3

Author(s)
Who knows
Status
likely dead
Short Description
This appears to be a dead branch of firmware. The firmware date is 2008-08-05

Features

  • can support SD cards

Compatible Electronics

How to download

Version 1.2 appears to be the last version and it's in a zip file here.

Documentation & Misc. Notes

The only mention of Gen3 firmware is in the wiki at Generation3Firmware

  • documentation for the communications between host PC and electronics is in a Google Doc


Generation2

Author(s)
Who knows
Status
superceded by FiveD firmware?
Short Description
This appears to be an early prototype of the FiveD firmware

Features

unknown

Compatible Electronics

How to download

All the links for this firmware are dead. It is probably buried somewhere in the past of the reprap FiveD repository

Documentation & Misc. Notes

Documentation appears to be at Generation2Firmware


Gen2OnABoard

Author(s)
Nick McCoy
Status
stale since Aug 2010
Short Description
This is an experimental fork of FiveD for the Gen2OnABoard electronics. May not actually work.

Features

  • stepper extruder
  • extruder speed control
  • movement speed control

Compatible Electronics

How to download

Downloadable from github by running:

git clone https://github.com/reprap/firmware.git

Documentation & Misc. Notes

Documentation is non existent


Grbl

Author(s)
Simen Svale Skogsrud
Status
active up to Feb 2011
Short Description
Grbl is a no-compromise, high performance, low cost alternative to parallel-port-based motion control for CNC milling. Does not control extruders.

Features

  • run on a vanilla Arduino (Duemillanove/Uno) as long as it sports an Atmega 328
  • nice simple controller for CNC milling
  • written in tidy, modular C
  • does not require parallel port
  • able to maintain more than 30kHz step rate and delivers a clean, jitter free stream of control pulses.
  • full acceleration-management with look ahead planner

Compatible Electronics

How to download

Downloadable from github by running:

git clone [email protected]:simen/grbl.git

Documentation & Misc. Notes

Documentation is at http://dank.bengler.no/-/page/show/5471_gettinggrbl

From the website:

We have limited g-code-support by design. Grbl support all the common operations encountered in output from CAM-tools, but leave human g-coders frustrated. No variables, no tool offsets, no functions, no arithmetic and no control structures. Just the basic machine operations. We have yet to find a CAM-generated file that failed to run, though.
  • No gui, all interaction is through command line