 It's time to upgrade the firmware on the Oortour LaserMaster and LaserMaster 2 machines. I'm going to show you how to do that in five minutes or less. My name's Jim and this is the Edge of Tech. So like I said, Oortour just released a firmware for the LaserMaster and LaserMaster 2 machines. It's time to update that firmware and I'm going to show you how to do that. It's pretty easy. There is a couple things you need to know right away. Number one, you have to do this on a Windows machine. You cannot use a Mac to do this. Please don't use a Mac to do this. Heed the warning, Windows only. I'm sorry Mac users, but that's what they did and that's how the firmware is. Just please use a Windows machine to do this. Number two, because we're changing cores from 1.1F to 1.1H in Gerbil, that is going to erase all the settings that you have. If you've done any custom settings, keep track of them and you'll have to re-add them after this is done. So why would we do this? Why would we upgrade the firmware anyways? Well, I tell you what, there's a couple reasons. Number one, they introduced some new fixes. They fixed the laser, pause and resume issues. That's going to be for both boards. And the second thing that corrected was the false positive checks on the pro-mother boards. There's a couple different motherboards and if you have a pro model, you probably already know it. In the instructions, they actually show you the difference. It's the buttons are turned different on the front control. Either way, it's going to fix some issues on the firmware. The second reason is because they've actually added some improvements. They are upgrading the Gerbil core, the GRBL core, from 1.1F to 1.1H, which is a newer version of the Gerbil core. Added optimization for the USB driver library in the attempt to address disconnect issue alarms, the alarm three thing. They also added a fan delay shutdown function, which the fan will remain going from 30 to 120 seconds based upon the length of your total burn. The fan will keep going to cool down that laser. So that's a really cool function. They also introduced a G shock algorithm is what they call it, which is a new algorithm that reduces the amount of false positives. It's time to update. It doesn't take long. Like I said, five minutes or less, let's do it. So the first thing you want to do is go to the website. The link will be in the description below for the website and it'll take you to this page. When you're here, if you look through this page, it shows a bunch of different lasers that they have. And what you want to do is choose the download for the laser that you have. You can use the top here if you want to go through there, but really, there's not that many. So you can scroll down if you want, just like that. What we're going to do is choose downloads. That's going to actually download the file in a zip form that we need once you click this download link. So once you got a download, you're going to need to extract it. In Windows 10, you right-click and hit extract all, and that will extract it. And it'll bring up the actual folder. Now you can use multiple different things to extract this if you need to. Seven zip is one. In Windows 10, all you have to do is right-click that zip file and hit extract all. So that'll bring us to the folder that we're seeing here. You can see that there is a firmware instructions, a PDF, a bin file, and the changes, a text document that tells you the changes I just went through. The PDF is really cool. If you open that up, it'll go through. It's a very nicely typed set of instructions. And it goes through exactly what I'm going to do now. It's very nice. If you see in the center of the screen right now, here's your difference between your Max Pro and your version 1.3 motherboards. So the Max Pro, the buttons are above each other like this. And on the 1.3, they're next to each other like this. Depending on what version you have is going to depend on how you push the buttons. It really is. It's the same buttons. They're just in a different orientation on the other motherboard. Once you have this downloaded, we need to enable firmware mode on our laser. And we're going to do that now. So we're at the laser. And it's kind of hard to see with the black-on-black buttons, but there's the power button here and the reset button here. The instructions say we need to hold the power button down for five seconds and then keep holding it and tap the reset button. When we do that, we should see a drive pop up on the computer. Now the laser is completely off at this time. I'm going to try that now. So I'm going to press the power button in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And I'm going to touch that. On the computer, I just saw a folder pop up. So let's go check that out. As you can see, a window popped up. In my case, it says, or tour laser. And the drive G. In your case, it might be a different drive. That's okay. What we need to do is copy the bin folder, the .bin folder, right to the root of this drive here. So I'm going to go up here. I'm going to click on this. And I'm going to right-click and click Copy. On the left side here, you'll see or tour laser G. If you don't see this, you can click on this PC right here. And that will take you to all the drives. You'll find the or tour laser drive here. And if you click on that, we want to paste that bin file, that bin file, right in here. So we're going to do that. Right-click and then hit Paste. And that should copy the file up. And as you saw, it didn't take long. It only took a couple seconds there. Now what we're going to do is go back to the laser and just touch that reset button. And I'll show you that now. OK, we're back at the laser here. And again, power on the right, reset on the left. In my case, if you have the other board, you're up and down. So I'm just going to touch the reset button here. And that'll shut the laser off. Now what I want to do is hold this button down and power the laser back on. And it'll home just like that so that firmware automatically will load itself up when you turn the laser back on. So we held the reset button and it powered the laser off. Then we powered the laser back on with the power button and it homed. Now we're going to go back to the computer and see if our firmware updated. So I've opened Light Burn Up. So in the instructions in that PDF file, it goes through how to do this in laser gerbil or laser GRBL, however you want to say it, or Light Burn. And as you know from my previous videos, I use Light Burn. I love Light Burn. So what we're going to do is open Light Burn Up. When you do that, you'll hear the laser home. And then you want to come to devices. Now make sure you're on the newest version of Light Burn. If you look up in the top left, it's 0.9.20. And you want to make sure you're on the newest version of Light Burn all the time because they do some really cool stuff. But in this case, because this might be different from previous versions, what I'm going to do is just right click Devices. It's going to home the laser. And as you see, I've done it a couple of times, but as you see here, it'll say this is an Oortour laser. It's a LaserMaster II. It's OLF Firmware 140. Now that is the newest firmware. You want to make sure that says OLF 140. We're good. So since the firmware is good, what we need to do is clear the EEPROM. Again, this is absolutely going to clear out any custom things you've done, and you'll need to re-enter them. So make sure you save it before you do the firmware process. What we need to do is paste the code you see here, which is a dollar sign, and then capital R, capital S, capital T equals an asterisk. I'm going to hit Enter. And when I do that, it's going to say Message, Restoring Defaults. OK, LaserMaster II Ready, OLF 140. It says Gerbil 1.1H, which is great. And we are done. You've officially upgraded the firmware on your LaserMaster or your LaserMaster II lasers. And that's all you have to do. So that's it. You've officially upgraded your firmware on the LaserMaster or LaserMaster II lasers. And it's super easy to do. I hope this video helped out. And don't forget, if you had any custom settings, you need to go back and enter those now. Other than that, we are completely finished. The firmware is upgraded. You saw it was OLF 140, and that's great. Well, I hope you guys got some value out of the video today. If you did, please hit that Subscribe button below. It doesn't cost you anything, and it means the world to my channel. I really appreciate it. I hope you guys learned something today, and as always, keep burning. What's up, everybody? I hope you liked the video. If you did, give me that thumbs up. 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