![]() Zapmaker hasn't been active for a while now, and his software hasn't had a binary release readily available for a while now - if you wished to d/l the code and compile it yourself it should work okay - it is possible to lock a given comm / control app to a particular communications chip (Carbide 3D does this w/their Carbide Motion board / software), but Grbl doesn't have much room to check on things - that said, it would be possible to use an unusual communication speed or other setting as a compile time option which would require puzzling out before connecting). The v1.1 update is scheduled to have some significant improvements for laser use, and the worst case should be that you pull the control board and replace it with something which currently works well for a laser and is well-documented, say a Smoothieboard (I use an Azteeg X5 mini w/ a Viki 2 LCD on my 3D printer and it works quite nicely). ![]() v0.8 and later have been available under a more restrictive license in terms of code re-use - still free / opensource software. ![]() Grbl is a an opensource machine control program which has formed the basis of most freely available firmware options (up through v0.7 it was available w/ an MIT license which allowed re-used w/o any real requirements or legal hoops).
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