for the meeting next week here comes the windows version, a version for Intel Macs and and a version for Mac PPC.
Major changes in this version:
I have found and interesting piece of freeware, that might be helpful when designing electrical circuits…
Can be downloaded with some examples here:
http://www.physicsbox.com/indexsolveelec2en.html
I spent only a few moments playing around with it, but it seems to be easy to manipulate. I also think it can calculate what kind of resistor you’ll need if using a certain number of LED or other components…
We held a workshop called “Smart Dance” here in Bremen together with a dancer. The children were making shirts, studied a dance and controlled the stage with sensors and actuators.
Here some photos from the making process.
We used a sewign machine in the workshop and worked with Bling Cricket from Fred Martin. It is availible as prototype only but hopefully it will be on the market soon.
At least the text on the blocks as well as menu entries within the software should be translated.
Up to now I worked on a German and an English version. To create new languages I wrote a little form where you can translate all the words needed.
The manual is based on the Arduino booklet and is released under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5. It will be available for download as pdf but now I will just post single parts.
Go to http://www.dimeb.de/eduwear category Software Development.
Download the latest Software version for your Operating System and in your language.
Right-click on the archive you downloaded. Use an archive program e.g. WinZip or Winrar to extract the file. Make sure to extract it to a folder.
Plug-in the board with the USB cable
On Windows
Plug the board into the computer and, when the New Device Found window comes up; specify the location for the install wizard to look for the drivers (Point the driver to the folder you created /drivers). This will happen twice because the first time the computer installs the low level driver 17 then a piece of code that makes the board look like a serial port.
Change into the win folder and double-click on run.bat.
Macintosh:
Look for the “Drivers” folder inside the folder and double-click on the file called FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_0_1.dmg. When this has opened, install the software contained in the FTDIUSBSerialDriver.pkg. At the end of this process you’ll have to restart your machine to make sure the drivers apre properly loaded.
After the installation is successful you will also need to run the command called “macosx_setup.command”.
Follow the instructions provided by the program and type the password that you use to login into your computer when asked. After this program has run successfully you need to turn off your computer. Don’t just reboot or logout, really turn it off and back on again.
When this phase is over you can plug the board into the computer.
Open Terminal change to the unzipped folder and type in sh run.sh.