Glow Rider V4

[jeyeager (Jason Yeager)]

@Nvizeon

I know I saw a post where someone installed an RGB LED strip below the gantry that was connected to the control board and would light up different colors depending on the run state of the machine.

Yea, the crazy version of that is me. I created a WLED usermod that connects to FluidNC via Telnet (since it doesn’t really like multiple websocket connections). So, it monitors the status and maps it to a WLED preset.

FluidNC LED Musings

We might be getting enough snow tomorrow where I would need/want my snowblower. So, that was motivation to finish getting that ready. This means I had my propane heater going in my garage which meant it was warm enough for me to play with LEDs some more. [FluidNC WLED Testing] It’s a little hard to see but it tracks the position fairly well. It’s a bit off at high feedrates. Not sure if I want to play with the reporting rate or offset based on feedrate. I do plan on changing t…