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### Electronics
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+As mentioned above I used the electronics, namely mainboard, LCD and fans, from my old 3D printer.
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+ [ "img/laser_lcd.jpg", "LCD mounted to laser engraver" ],
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[ "img/laser_gt2560.jpg", "GT2560 mainboard of laser engraver" ],
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So even when the MOSFET was turned off the laser still had a ground connection and was powered through the ground pin of the TTL connector, so it could never fully turn off.
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+Most DIY laser engravers or CNC machines seem to use the [GRBL firmware](https://github.com/gnea/grbl).
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+Unfortunately this firmware only runs on Atmega328p MCUs, so I can not use it with the Atmega2560 on the GT2560 mainboard.
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+There are some GRBL ports, for [ESP32](https://github.com/bdring/Grbl_Esp32) or [STM32](https://github.com/thomast777/grbl32) microcontrollers, but obviously these don't help either in my situation.
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+So I decided to use the trusty old [Marlin Firmware](https://marlinfw.org/), which was already running previously on my old 3D printers and this mainboard.
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+Configuring Marlin is pretty straight-forward, there's a [configuration guide](https://marlinfw.org/docs/configuration/configuration.html) but the settings in the two config header files are well commented and pretty much self explanatory.
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+The only interesting parts are the laser-specific settings in `Configuration_adv.h`, like `LASER_FEATURE` and `LASER_POWER_SYNC`.
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Apparently I seem to be the first person that tries to run an Ultimaker Controller 2004 LCD without a Z-Axis.
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As the name implies however, it is intended for use with the [GRBL firmware](https://github.com/gnea/grbl).
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