Recently there’s been the sad news that LightBurn is dropping Linux support after v1.7… citing disproportionate time/effort spent on too small a percentage of the LB user base. It is my understanding, however, that all LB versions up to and including v1.7 will still be available for download and your license will remain valid forever… just no updates or new features after v1.7.
On a brighter note, I’m still happily using v1.3.01! And with renewed interest in a LB forum thread regarding LightBurn on Raspberry Pi, several folks – including me – have successfully installed and run Lightburn on a RPi running Linux. While a single comprehensive how-to seems non-existent… vital bits of information on how to pull it off is available with a bit of research. It isn’t Linux running on a RPi that’s the “big trick”, of course… but running Linux apps like LB on the ARM architecture is. Thankfully, with the Box64 emulator, it is possible however… and the responsiveness is quite impressive.
Lazy as I am, I’m still sitting in my recliner (I insist!) with my Acer Chromebook (Developer mode) in hand, talking to RPi4 desktop through VNC, and running LB that’s controlling the laser engraver through USB. The RPi4 (4Gig) is running Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 11 “bullseye”).
Still piddlin’ around with RPi4/Lightburn and Openart.ai’s sketch to image functionality, I found it rather interesting to input simple images (here the simple V1E logo) and specify the additional descriptors“grayscale bas relief, high detail, high contrast”, and retain“similar” creativity level… openart.ai gave me this:
