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:

Active Firmwares

FiveD

Author(s)
Buzz and others
Status
active as of Sept 28, 2011
Short Description
The granddaddy of all firmwares. It appears to be the original G-code interpreter. Forked from Generation2. The reason it's called FiveD is because it controls 5 dimensions: x, y, z, extruder motor, and extruder temperature (I think)

Features

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

Compatible Electronics

How to download

The firmware is now hosted on Github. 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

Preconfigured sources for Gen7 hardware are on the Gen7_Board_1.2 page.

Sprinter

Authors
Kliment, caru, tonok, tesla893
Status
Active as of July 5, 2011
Short Description
forked from Klimentkip. 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

Documentation & Misc. Notes

Only documentation seems to be over at Sprinter

  • Possibly called Carukip too
  • 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 November 2011
Short Description
This was a complete rewrite of the FiveD firmware to optimize it for Arduino's wimpy 8-bit CPU. Previously known as "FiveD on Arduino" ( which was confusing it easily with "FiveD" which is different).

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
  • Support for spindles, CNC-milling
  • Unlimited number of extruders

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

sjfw

Author(s)
ScribbleJ
Status
active as of Aug 8, 2011
Short Description
A featureful modern Reprap firmware.

Features

  • High-speed gcode pipeline. No intra-move delay.
  • LCD/Keypad control panel, Hostless printing
  • Acceleration
  • Volumetric/5D
  • SD Card
  • FULL RUNTIME CONFIG.
  • See the sjfw page for more information.

How to Download

See the sjfw page.

Marlin

Authors
Erik van der Zalm:Active as may 2011; Bernhard Kubicek: Active as november 2011
Short Description
forked from Sprinter and Grbl.
Current Status
Public Beta 1 of v1.0.0

Features

  • Look ahead (Keep the speed high when possible. High cornering speed)
  • High steprate
  • Interrupt based temperature protection
  • Interrupt based movement with real linear acceleration
  • preliminary support for Matthew Roberts advance algorithm For more info see: http://reprap.org/pipermail/reprap-dev/2011-May/003323.html
  • Full endstop support
  • SD Card support
  • SD Card folders (works in pronterface)
  • LCD support (ideally 20x4)
  • LCD menu system for autonomous SD card printing, controlled by an click-encoder.
  • EEPROM storage of e.g. max-velocity, max-acceleration, and similar variables
  • many small but handy things originating from bkubicek's fork.
  • Arc support
  • Temperature oversampling
  • Dynamic Temperature setpointing aka "AutoTemp"
  • Support for QTMarlin, a very beta GUI for PID-tuning and velocity-acceleration testing.
  • Endstop trigger reporting to the host software.
  • Updated sdcardlib
  • Heater power reporting. Useful for PID monitoring.


Compatible Electronics

How to download

You can download tagged versions on github All branches, most current is Marlin_v1 are on Github

Documentation & Misc. Notes

The included readme.md Marlin

Makerbot firmware

Author(s)
Who knows
Status
active as of Nov 9, 2011
Short Description
The v2 makerbot firmware was a rewrite of the old Gen3 firmware to be a little more robust. The latest version appears to be v3.2.

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 v3 firmware is where all active development takes place. See the Makerbot wiki for details on how to build and install the code.

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


Abandoned and Deprecated Firmwares

Hydra-MMM

Author(s)
Clayton Webster
Status
stale as of May 2010
Short Description
Hydra is a multi-headed manufacturing machine that was originally being designed and built for ME463 (senior design) at Purdue University.

Features

  • used for multi-headed machine

Compatible Electronics

How to download

Downloadable from sourceforge in a zip file

Documentation & Misc. Notes

The only documentation is on the wiki under Hydra-MMM Software and Firmware


Generation 2 firmware

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


Generation 3 firmware

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


Tonokip

Author(s)
johnnyr
Status
superceded by Sprinter
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


Klimentkip

Author: Kliment
Status
superceded by Sprinter
Short Description
This was originally a fork of Tonokip but is now called Sprinter

Features

unknown

Compatible Electronics

How to download

You can still download from Kliment's github repository by running

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

Documentation & Misc. Notes

Can't find any documentation and the firmware is officially defunct now