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.
An ant script(build.xml) is provided. With Ant installed building is just:
$ ant
The Pacemaker host application can be started like this:
$ java -jar Pacemaker.jar
The host needs a configuration file that file can be created manually or by running this:
$ java -jar PacemakerWizard.jar
To test the Pacemaker system without real hardware a simulation for the client can be started like this:
$ java -jar PacemakerTest.jar
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