This question was directly asked about MeerK40t in the Meerk40t category, and was not related to RDworks or LightBurn. But he’s made a point of making it somewhat modular, and there are K40-class machines with Ruida, so asking about his current state of implementation and intentions is reasonable for the purpose of updating summary documentation that we’re trying to make complete. If you haven’t been following it, you wouldn’t know that. Meerk40t is new software, and is working on it very actively. In addition to that information that I hunted down during my editing process, I wanted to be complete. I already, before asking this question, added to that document the information about RDworks and LightBurn, which was not in what had written so far.

I’m trying to update document with a bit more information. But I don’t think it’s a bad or stupid question. Doesn’t create any obligation for anyone, or otherwise, to do any work to support it. Since some K40-class machines do include Ruida controllers, and the name is “MeerK40t”, it doesn’t seem like a crazy question to me. I was only trying to ask whether supporting Ruida controllers was something he had thought about. I’m not really doing a survey to learn whether other people active here are interested in open source support for Ruida controllers.

Even if I choose to use proprietary software to drive it from time to time, if there’s no open source alternative, it’s disposable and therefore a toy not a tool.

But I consider all hardware that cannot be driven except by proprietary software as disposable. I understand that not everyone here has the same interest I do in open source. When I wrote the first open source scanner driver for Linux, including pouring over and annotating pages and pages of hex dumps from a SCSI analyzer to understand how it worked, there were proprietary drivers for Windows, so by the same logic there was no need for me to duplicate support.

Lightburn vs rdworks