Overview

This is an Opentrons fork of the open-source Smoothieware

A recent stable build can usually be found in the releases.

Smoothie is a free, opensource, high performance G-code interpreter and CNC controller written in Object-Oriented C++ for the LPC17xx micro-controller ( ARM Cortex M3 architecture ). It will run on a mBed, a LPCXpresso, a SmoothieBoard, R2C2 or any other LPC17xx-based board. The motion control part is a port of the awesome grbl.

For more information on smoothie as a whole, please check out their documentation here

Materials

Opentrons utilizes the LPC1768 chip

Quick Start

These are the quick steps to get OT Smoothie dependencies installed on your computer:

• Pull down a clone of the Opentrons Smoothie github fork project to your local machine.
• Install GNU-ARM compiler for your Operating System.
• Ensure that your path is correctly set by searching for the location of: arm-none-eabi-gcc/../../bin
• You can check that your path is correct by typing arm-none-eabi-gcc --help and see that the function menu pops up, and also that it is a gcc compiler not a clang compiler

Building and Compiling OT Smoothie

From a shell, switch into the root Smoothie project directory and run:

make clean build

This will generate a hex file which can be added onto an SD card to be placed in a smoothie board that will run our software. If you are receiving an error that the compiler is not being recognized then try the following on a Unix/Linux distro: PATH=$PATH:/path/to/bin/file/gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2018-q4-major/bin make clean build

If you are connected to a smoothie board, you can use the command

make opentrons

To automatically set up the board for you.

Filing issues

Please follow the guide here

Contributing

Please take a look here

Contributions are very welcome !

Releasing (for Opentrons devs)

When you want to release a version of the smoothie software for subsequent Robot OS updates, just create a github release in this repository. Travis will automatically build the tag and post it to the release.

Note: You must create the github release first - don't create and push a tag from your remote. The release needs to be created for Travis to properly deploy the result.

Once you've made the release, go update the package in buildroot.

Donate

We based our firmware off of the smoothie firmware which is developed by volunteers. If you find this software useful, want to say thanks and encourage development, please consider a donation!

License

Smoothieware is released under the GNU GPL v3