

The features aren’t so much in the controlling of the two axes as they are in living with the machine - SD card for updating firmware on the fly without needing to re-flash the board. You can get higher speeds without missing steps, where the same settings in grbl would result in a lot of stutter. It’s noticeable, by ear alone, how much smoother the smoothieboard is. The novice driver tends to go full-throttle and hard braking to try and gain overall speed, whereas being gentle on the throttle and brakes results in faster progression, with less loss of traction, more safely, with less wear and tear on components. Think of how a rally driver takes a series of slippery bends vs a teenager in an overpowered car Or in my case, and experience, how an advanced motorcyclist moves through a set of bends. this makes for a lot of wasted energy and is hard on machinery. Grbl, by contrast has a very jerky acceleration - stop to full speed is linear. It has a 120MHz processor with a lot of RAM, so has longer look-ahead and thus, can motion-plan further out. So, in layman’s terms, it starts off slower, builds speed longer, so higher speeds possible, and decelerates in a sine, giving you smoother, better motion. It gives smooth, jerk-free motion and higher speeds, due to the advanced motion planning. They accelerate/decelerate more gently, giving a ‘smooth’ operation, hence the name. MeerK40t Part.Smoothieware has advanced motion control where the planning acceleration forms a sine, rather than a sawtooth. As Long as you keep MeerK4ot Open it will let you run lightburn.that is it both are now linked to each other and you can now use lightburn and it will move and laser on your k40. Now click on the Profile Device and click ruida.Next Start point i set to Rear Left and then click next to finish. You will need to set the size of the laser bed i set mine to 320 by 220.The IP you need to put in this box is 127.0.0.1 The name you can call what ever you want.now that the box has opend click on Create Manually go down to Ruida Click next you want to connect as Ethernet/UDP. Now you can open lightburn and setup a link to MeerK40t from lightburn.When you have put this in it will make is a a link to lightburn.this will open a window and you need to type in ruidacontrol. You will need to first open MeerK40t and go to console.useing MeerK40t this will make a join to lightburn so you canuse the stock board.

you dont need a ruida control board we are going to use the stock k40 board. this will let you run lightburn on a ruida controler.


The License key you are going to need is the DSP License. You will need to download MeerK40t as well. You are going to need to have a Lightburn License key. Here is how you can run Lightburn on a stock k40 board.
