Laser Support

[petervanderwalt]

https://github.com/gnea/grbl/wiki/Grbl-v1.1-Laser-Mode
https://github.com/Smoothieware/Smoothieware/tree/edge/src/modules/tools/laser

Some important features that's must have

• Proportional laser (M4 mode in grbl, on by default in smoothie) scales PWM power according to acceleration to prevent darker burns during (ac/de)celleration
• G0=laseroff move, G1=laseronmove (Makes gcode generator more efficient, no need for m3/m5 on every segment / change etc
• PWM freq configurable (we found that between various diode drivers and CO2 driver, it helps to tweak pwm freq for a better linear response. CO2 PSUs seem to like a 1khz, whereas some of the chinesier diode drivers need 30khz, etc)

Also, working on adding support for LaserWeb directly (Instead export gcode -> then into Octoprint) (Not much use for laser until we have a Laser module support (; )

[KevinOConnor]

It's not clear if you are requesting that this feature be added, or are indicating that you are planning to work on it.

I don't think that, I personally, will have time to look at something like this in the next several months.

You may want to update the existing issue #133 with the items above, as that's probably a better place to track this.

[petervanderwalt]

Asking for feature to be added please (:

I want to work on the frontend side of things by intergrating LaserWeb as an optional replacement for Octoprint . But LaserWeb needs firmware level Laser support before thats worth doing (;

Closing this one, will follow 133.