bhgv / lua.gcode.sender

CNC g-code sender using Lua and Lua modules

lua.gcode.sender

Intro

This is a highly configurable and changeable universal g-code sender for home-made CNC, laser & 3d printer. It doesn't contain any hard to port elements. It has written using Lua & lua modules (lua, C, C++).

Supported hardware

• GRBL v0.9j
• Marlin v1 & v2

Lua version

v5.3.3 (bit operations)

Used Lua plugins

• http://hg.neoscientists.org/tekui/
• https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem
• https://github.com/vsergeev/lua-periphery
• https://github.com/memononen/nanosvg
• https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/dime (DXF reader library)

Dependencies to build

• libreadline-dev
• libX11-dev
• libxft-dev
• libxext-dev
• libxxf86vm-dev

How to build

Sources of lua-5.3.3 & all modules are included. Just run bld.sh script from the top of the project tree:

$ ./bld.sh 

Currently it is tested on linux-arm (Armbian, lUbuntu, Orange Pi PC - raspberry pi like) and linux-x86 (Ubuntu, xUbuntu)

How to execute

$ cd bld
$ ./prg

How to change lua scripts

all lua scripts are in the bld/conf folder. examples & docs to lua & modules are in their own folders.

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