FluidNC
The next generation of motion control firmware (by bdring)
DrawingBotV3
DrawingBotV3 is a software for converting images into vector art (by SonarSonic)
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| FluidNC | DrawingBotV3 | |
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| 14 | 10 | |
| 1,363 | 306 | |
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| 9.3 | 9.4 | |
| 3 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| C++ | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
FluidNC
Posts with mentions or reviews of FluidNC.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-04.
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Building a DIY Pen Plotter
Grbl on ESP32 absolutely is a thing. I've been using it drive my robots for years. https://github.com/bdring/FluidNC
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Do $3-5k machines have an effortless way of storing and starting a routine request prompt?
Not that I'm aware. The closest I know is the FluidNC firmware https://github.com/bdring/FluidNC for ESP32 boards.
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ESP32-S3 SPI bus
According with this image from the espressif github there are some pins (35, 36, 37, 47, 48) with "SPI functions", and some others marked with the tags "FSPI" and "Subspi" (9-14, 35-38).
- Best pins for fastest SPI speed
- The Ant Queen
- Arduino 2560 can’t upload Grbl
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I have some a4988 stepper driver and esp 32 but no driver .How can i code for a diy cnc with these? What will be the instructions?
I use this one. WiFi access, upload gcode to SD card and fire the job. Pretty happy about that. I bought one of the boards they make, and they provide support for that so buying from them makes things easier. But there's more [supported hardware](https://github.com/bdring/FluidNC/wiki/Hardware-that-Runs-FluidNC). There are configurations ready for some of those cheap boards and a friend made one work out of the box.
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ESP32 Based 4 Axis CNC Control Board
You can see the firmware here and associated documentation here: https://github.com/bdring/FluidNC
- Klipper – open-source 3D Printer Firmware
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6 pack eps32 controller?
I've been looking at the tinybee since I need 4 axes and external driver support... I don't see it on the hardware that runs fluidNC page https://github.com/bdring/FluidNC/wiki/Hardware-that-Runs-FluidNC
DrawingBotV3
Posts with mentions or reviews of DrawingBotV3.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-04.
- Building a DIY Pen Plotter
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What are the best free programs that aren't open-source?
The free version is open-source.
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Software to turn black and white image into plottable SVG?
A lot of resources can be found here: https://drawingbots.net/resources VPype is one that comes to mind... as well as https://github.com/SonarSonic/DrawingBotV3 which I've used with good success.
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Fluorescent Posca pens and BIC plot
Best software ever is Drawingbot V3 and find it here: https://github.com/SonarSonic/DrawingBotV3
- Is it possible to draw my face with a plotter?
- Some Spitfire drawings I did over 3.5 years ago. One source file processed 3 ways.
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After the test phase, here is the first 'real' drawing made by my Polargraph. 25000 lines for 3 hours of drawing. Format 18x18cm. The machine can go up to A2 size I'm quite satisfied with the result. If you want more information about the polargaph : https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5136394
Thanks ! I use DrawingBot V3 for production https://github.com/SonarSonic/DrawingBotV3 Good idea for Z stepper.
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RIP Mister the Cat - I miss you every single day!
It's maybe a bit easier than you think! I started with a photo, edited it with photoshop, then processed it using the DrawingBot software Thanks to github user SonarSonic. It took me several attempts to get the final, but with some experimenting with the DrawingBot settings, going back and forth to photoshop, then back to inkscape, I split the image into 3 layers for the different colors and I'm pretty happy with the result.
- Other ways to direct my plotter
- Merlo
What are some alternatives?
When comparing FluidNC and DrawingBotV3 you can also consider the following projects:
grblHAL - This repo has moved to a new home https://github.com/grblHAL
picasso-transformations - An Android transformation library providing a variety of image transformations for Picasso
grbl-Mega-5X - 5/6 Axis version of Grbl, the open source, embedded, high performance g-code-parser and CNC milling controller written in optimized C that will run on an Arduino Mega2560
processing-imageprocessing - Collection of basic image processing algorithms for processing
grbl-Mega - An open source, embedded, high performance g-code-parser and CNC milling controller written in optimized C that will run on an Arduino Mega2560
Thumbnailator - Thumbnailator - a thumbnail generation library for Java
ESP32-S3-Platform - ESP32-S3 Development Board with SD-Card and versatile power management 5V and up to 12V
BoofCV - Fast computer vision library for SFM, calibration, fiducials, tracking, image processing, and more.
AccelStepper - Fork of AccelStepper
Blurry - Blurry is an easy blur library for Android
klipper - Klipper is a 3d-printer firmware
inkscapeOptimizePath - An Inkscape extension that tries to make the longest paths possible
FluidNC vs grblHAL
DrawingBotV3 vs picasso-transformations
FluidNC vs grbl-Mega-5X
DrawingBotV3 vs processing-imageprocessing
FluidNC vs grbl-Mega
DrawingBotV3 vs Thumbnailator
FluidNC vs ESP32-S3-Platform
DrawingBotV3 vs BoofCV
FluidNC vs AccelStepper
DrawingBotV3 vs Blurry
FluidNC vs klipper
DrawingBotV3 vs inkscapeOptimizePath