How to learn to create custom firmware for the u1

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Hello Snappy community! I am creating a safety printing firmware on the u1 for the innovation competition. I’m inquiring how to go about reaching my goals:

  1. learn how I can quickly iterate versions hopefully without flashing every time.

  2. learn how to access the acceleration data from the print head, and either display that on the printer screen or preferably on my computer. (like in my IDE console)

  3. how to move the print head from either the firmware or the gcode. Either way there must be some awareness of the model being printed. the result I’m searching for is to have my nozzle bump the edge of the first layer and measure the resistance the nozzle feels to judge the adhesion quality. my

knowledge: I’m very familiar with Python, and other languages. I have never worked with creating custom gcode outside of slicers. I do not know how to go about changing firmware nor do I know where to learn this.

I appreciate all help.

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Snapmaker themselves publish a custom firmware. I don’t have a U1 to test it, but you might start there. There is discussion in the forums about it as well.