BIGREP ONE GENERATION 3 - III-B Firmware

III. Soware BigRep
III-B Firmware
* 2016-04-07
› Smoothie is a free, open-source, high performance and modular G-code
interpreter and CNC control system for the Smoothieboard 32bits control-
ler. [http://smoothieware.org/]
› Smoothie is a firmware. That is a program that executes on a micro-control-
ler, basically a very simple/small computer used for very specific tasks. The
micro-controller is located on a controller board, for example Smoothie-
board (BigRep: Boogieboard), where it executes the Smoothie firmware.
› This program receives instructions from your computer ( typically G-code,
generated by CAM soware), and executes them, for example by moving
stepper motors in a coordinated fashion, and operating tools.
› Firmware is written by BigRep and based on the open source smoothie
project, like many other FDM 3D Printer and/or CNC milling machines.
› Firmware updates will be pushed automatically to the printer by BigRep if
connected to the Internet.
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