Role of controller with Lightburn?

[JohnJohn (John Johnson)]

@DavidR8

what is the role of a controller interface like a Ruida has when paired up with Lightburn?

This is the Key distinction between GCode controllers and Ruida (DSP) controllers.

With a GCode controller the GCode generated dictates the path, speeds and laser output most of the time. There is a cornering algorithm but that’s the extent of that control.

The DSP controller handles data faster and provides more nuanced control over the motion planning.

Oz does a better job of explaining it than I can:

DSP Controllers compared to System on a Chip boards

So one could not expect to hack the binary data format as one would with the G-Code. Not something I had thought about. That helps a lot in understanding what you can and can’t do. FPGA’s also take some time to boot but since i don’t have a Ruida yet, not sure about that and not probably a issue anyway. Should one expect to be able to do finer work with a Ruida controller than a GCode one? As a matter of timing and speed. Would you need to slow a cut to get the same level of detail between the …