meerk40t VS K40-GRBLcntrlr

Compare meerk40t vs K40-GRBLcntrlr and see what are their differences.

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meerk40t K40-GRBLcntrlr
8 1
203 11
2.5% -
10.0 3.6
5 days ago almost 3 years ago
Python nesC
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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meerk40t

Posts with mentions or reviews of meerk40t. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-16.
  • MeerK40T tutorial part 1
    1 project | /r/lasercutting | 21 May 2023
    Download it from Github
  • Ten High laser engraver cutter 40 watt
    1 project | /r/lasercutting | 14 Feb 2023
  • K40 Not appearing anywhere on PC
    1 project | /r/ChineseLaserCutters | 23 Sep 2022
  • Replacement controller for 60W CO2 Laser
    1 project | /r/lasercutting | 13 Sep 2022
  • Controller Options - UK based
    1 project | /r/ChineseLaserCutters | 24 Apr 2022
    Hi guys, you don't actually need to get a new motherboard to use lightburn on a k40. Check out meerk40t, an awesome free k40 whisperer replacement which is 100 times better. This in itself is a great achievment by the programmer David Olsen, but what makes it amazing is that you can run the software as a kind of Ruida emulator and it will turn your k40 into a ruida machine and then lightburn can connect to it. I have been using it recently with great success. Full disclosure, you do have to update your licence of lightburn for the ruida version which costs 50bucks, if you only have the cheaper grbl version. Once you have set up the k40 in meerk40t and got it working load the console and type 'Ruida control' and it sets it up for you. Then in lightburn you create a manual machine, choose ruida, set the ip address to 127.0.0.1 your local machine then set the dimensions of the bed on your k40 220x320mm. Baddaboom baddabing, test it with your move controls and it should work fine. The github of the project is https://github.com/meerk40t/meerk40t. It is worth a go for free just to see if it can work for you, and you can use the demo version of lightburn which has the ruida controller drivers in it. If you dont like it you can still try tp get hold of the drop in replacement board.
  • K40 Mac software help
    2 projects | /r/ChineseLaserCutters | 16 Oct 2021
    I vouch for https://github.com/meerk40t/meerk40t A more modern alternative to Whisperer and actively maintained - used on MacOS without issues.
  • CorelLaser/CorelDraw not working - please HELP!!
    1 project | /r/lasercutting | 28 Sep 2021
  • MeerK40t 0.7.0 - B26 Prerelease 1
    1 project | /r/ChineseLaserCutters | 27 May 2021

K40-GRBLcntrlr

Posts with mentions or reviews of K40-GRBLcntrlr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing meerk40t and K40-GRBLcntrlr you can also consider the following projects:

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