- Cleaned up the limit pin state reporting option to display only the
state per axis, rather than the whole port. It’s organized by an XYZ
order, 0(low)-1(high), and generally looks like `Lim:001`.
- Separated the control pin state reporting from limit state reporting
as a new compile option. This stayed the same in terms of showing the
entire port in binary, since it’s not anticipated that this will be
used much, if at all.
- Updated some of the gcode source comments regarding supported g-codes.
- Added an include in the right spot, if a user tries to compile and
upload Grbl through the Arduino IDE with the old way.
- Fixed a minor bug with homing max travel calculations. It was causing
simultaneous axes homing to move slow than it did before.
- New configuration option at compile-time:
- Force alarm upon power-up or hard reset. When homing is enabled,
this is already the default behavior. This simply forces this all of
the time.
- GUI reporting mode. Removes most human-readable strings that GUIs
don’t need. This saves nearly 2KB in flash space that can be used for
other features.
- Hard limit force state check: In the hard limit pin change ISR, Grbl
by default sets the hard limit alarm upon any pin change to guarantee
the alarm is set. If this option is set, it’ll check the state within
the ISR, but can’t guarantee the pin will be read correctly if the
switch is bouncing. This option makes hard limit behavior a little less
annoying if you have a good buffered switch circuit that removes
bouncing and electronic noise.
- Software debounce bug fix. It was reading the pin incorrectly for the
setting.
- Re-factored some of the ‘$’ settings code.
- Homing cycle failure reports alarm feedback when the homing cycle is
exited via a reset, interrupted by a safety door switch, or does not
find the limit switch.
- Homing cycle bug fix when not finding the limit switch. It would just
idle before, but now will exit with an alarm.
- Licensing update. Corrected licensing according to lawyer
recommendations. Removed references to other Grbl versions.
- Overhauled the state machine and cleaned up its overall operation.
This involved creating a new ‘suspend’ state for what all external
commands, except real-time commands, are ignored. All hold type states
enter this suspend state.
- Removed ‘auto cycle start’ setting from Grbl. This was not used by
users in its intended way and is somewhat redundant, as GUI manage the
cycle start by streaming. It also muddled up how Grbl should interpret
how and when to execute a g-code block. Removing it made everything
much much simpler.
- Fixed a program pause bug when used with other buffer_sync commands.
- New safety door feature for OEMs. Immediately forces a feed hold and
then de-energizes the machine. Resuming is blocked until the door is
closed. When it is, it re-energizes the system and then resumes on the
normal toolpath.
- Safety door input pin is optional and uses the feed hold pin on A1.
Enabled by config.h define.
- Spindle and coolant re-energizing upon a safety door resume has a
programmable delay time to allow for complete spin up to rpm and
turning on the coolant before resuming motion.
- Safety door-style feed holds can be used instead of regular feed hold
(doesn’t de-energize the machine) with a ‘@‘ character. If the safety
door input pin is not enabled, the system can be resumed at any time.
- Re-organized source code files into a ‘grbl’ directory to lessen one
step in compiling Grbl through the Arduino IDE.
- Added an ‘examples’ directory with an upload .INO sketch to further
simplify compiling and uploading Grbl via the Arduino IDE.
- Updated the Makefile with regard to the source code no longer being
in the root directory. All files generated by compiling is placed in a
separate ‘build’ directory to keep things tidy. The makefile should
operate in the same way as it did before.
Sungeun Jeon