The pacemaker client implements the client role as defined in the pacemaker protocol. Together with a pacemaker host it can replace a 3d printer firmware.
The Pacemaker protocol provides an open interface to allow the separation of real-time and non-real-time control components for 3D printers, CNC machines and laser cutters.
This has the huge benefit of allowing new controller hardware (the real-time component) to work with existing host software solutions (the non-real-time component). This makes it easy to expand the Pacemaker system to new machines.
Pacemaker allows a much richer level of machine control by the non-real-time host software than is possible with typical G-code based systems. This provides feature-rich host software, more integrated start-to-finish tool chain solutions whilst still being able to operate on a wide range of platforms. The standard G-Code interface is also provided.
The firmware can be build using make. The generated Files will be placed in the bin folder. For details try
make help
for this to work you (obviously) need to have make installed. Depending on the target you are building for you might need to have additionaltools installed:
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For linux (Posix systems) you need pthreads and gcc. You can debug using gdb.
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To build for ARM Cortex-M Targets you need GCC ARM Embedded
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for automatic generated documentation you need Doxygen
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for programming the flash and debugging the STM32 chips you need stlink
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