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Ricardo Moran

[squeak-dev] Squeak Etoys interface with Arduino (first version available)

We're proud to announce the first public version of the Squeak Etoys interface with Arduino.

You can download it from here: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/Arduino.3.rar

It works in Windows and Linux (you will need to make a symlink in Linux to make it work with Squeak though, see README.txt for more information about the installation and usage).

I must warn you it's not really finished and it still contains a lot of bugs I haven't been able to fix.

The one that I find most annoying occurs when you first connect the board (in Linux it happens every time, actually). If you leave a transcript open, a few seconds after you click "connect", you'll see the following error (which I really don't know how to handle so I just copied it to the Transcript):

a Firmata(xxxx): Error: subscript is out of bounds: 34

After that, the input pins no longer work and you need to "reactivate" them by reseting the slot "is reading digital pins". Once you've done that, it works ok.

Anyway, thanks for the interest you've shown in this project, I hope you'll find it useful.

Any comments, critics, bug fixes, are greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero

[squeak-dev] Re: [etoys-dev] Squeak Etoys interface with Arduino (first version available)

Hello Ricardo.

This is a great project.

I got it running in an OLPC XO-1, with some minor tweaks to the
Arduino.sh script.

it would be nice to have a use tutorial with examples README.txt is
not very informative,.i saw you get inspired by the fritzing project!
way to go!.

Thanks again for your hard work

Rafael Ortiz

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Ricardo Moran <[hidden email]> wrote:

> We're proud to announce the first public version of the Squeak Etoys
> interface with Arduino.
> You can download it from here: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/Arduino.3.rar
> It works in Windows and Linux (you will need to make a symlink in Linux to
> make it work with Squeak though, see README.txt for more information about
> the installation and usage).
> I must warn you it's not really finished and it still contains a lot of bugs
> I haven't been able to fix.
> The one that I find most annoying occurs when you first connect the board
> (in Linux it happens every time, actually). If you leave a transcript open,
> a few seconds after you click "connect", you'll see the following error
> (which I really don't know how to handle so I just copied it to the
> Transcript):
> a Firmata(xxxx): Error: subscript is out of bounds: 34
> After that, the input pins no longer work and you need to "reactivate" them
> by reseting the slot "is reading digital pins". Once you've done that, it
> works ok.
> Anyway, thanks for the interest you've shown in this project, I hope you'll
> find it useful.
> Any comments, critics, bug fixes, are greatly appreciated.
> Cheers.
> _______________________________________________
> etoys-dev mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-dev
>
>

Gonzalo Zabala

[squeak-dev] Re: [etoys-dev] Squeak Etoys interface with Arduino (first version available)

Hi!
My name is Gonzalo. I work with Ricardo and Sebastian into this project.

Can you send us the modifications of the Arduino script? We made some
tests but we had problems...

Thanks!

Gonzalo

2009/9/23 Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <[hidden email]>:

> Hello Ricardo.
>
> This is a great project.
>
> I got it running in an OLPC XO-1, with some minor tweaks to the
> Arduino.sh script.
>
> it would be nice to have a use tutorial with examples README.txt is
> not very informative,.i saw you get inspired by the fritzing project!
> way to go!.
>
> Thanks again for your hard work
>
>
> Rafael Ortiz
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Ricardo Moran <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> We're proud to announce the first public version of the Squeak Etoys
>> interface with Arduino.
>> You can download it from here: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/Arduino.3.rar
>> It works in Windows and Linux (you will need to make a symlink in Linux to
>> make it work with Squeak though, see README.txt for more information about
>> the installation and usage).
>> I must warn you it's not really finished and it still contains a lot of bugs
>> I haven't been able to fix.
>> The one that I find most annoying occurs when you first connect the board
>> (in Linux it happens every time, actually). If you leave a transcript open,
>> a few seconds after you click "connect", you'll see the following error
>> (which I really don't know how to handle so I just copied it to the
>> Transcript):
>> a Firmata(xxxx): Error: subscript is out of bounds: 34
>> After that, the input pins no longer work and you need to "reactivate" them
>> by reseting the slot "is reading digital pins". Once you've done that, it
>> works ok.
>> Anyway, thanks for the interest you've shown in this project, I hope you'll
>> find it useful.
>> Any comments, critics, bug fixes, are greatly appreciated.
>> Cheers.
>> _______________________________________________
>> etoys-dev mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-dev
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> etoys-dev mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-dev
>

Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero

[squeak-dev] Re: [etoys-dev] Squeak Etoys interface with Arduino (first version available)

Sure..script attached.

The $SQUEAK_IMAGE variable should be set to the path of the Arduino.2.image

Also paths have to be adjusted to the actual paths of squeak in the
system. the command:

find / -iname squeak*

should work to know the paths.

Rafael Ortiz

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Gonzalo Zabala <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi!
> My name is Gonzalo. I work with Ricardo and Sebastian into this project.
>
> Can you send us the modifications of the Arduino script? We made some
> tests but we had problems...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gonzalo
>
> 2009/9/23 Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <[hidden email]>:
>> Hello Ricardo.
>>
>> This is a great project.
>>
>> I got it running in an OLPC XO-1, with some minor tweaks to the
>> Arduino.sh script.
>>
>> it would be nice to have a use tutorial with examples README.txt is
>> not very informative,.i saw you get inspired by the fritzing project!
>> way to go!.
>>
>> Thanks again for your hard work
>>
>>
>> Rafael Ortiz
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Ricardo Moran <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> We're proud to announce the first public version of the Squeak Etoys
>>> interface with Arduino.
>>> You can download it from here: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/Arduino.3.rar
>>> It works in Windows and Linux (you will need to make a symlink in Linux to
>>> make it work with Squeak though, see README.txt for more information about
>>> the installation and usage).
>>> I must warn you it's not really finished and it still contains a lot of bugs
>>> I haven't been able to fix.
>>> The one that I find most annoying occurs when you first connect the board
>>> (in Linux it happens every time, actually). If you leave a transcript open,
>>> a few seconds after you click "connect", you'll see the following error
>>> (which I really don't know how to handle so I just copied it to the
>>> Transcript):
>>> a Firmata(xxxx): Error: subscript is out of bounds: 34
>>> After that, the input pins no longer work and you need to "reactivate" them
>>> by reseting the slot "is reading digital pins". Once you've done that, it
>>> works ok.
>>> Anyway, thanks for the interest you've shown in this project, I hope you'll
>>> find it useful.
>>> Any comments, critics, bug fixes, are greatly appreciated.
>>> Cheers.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> etoys-dev mailing list
>>> [hidden email]
>>> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-dev
>>>
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> etoys-dev mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/etoys-dev
>>
>

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Ricardo Moran

[squeak-dev] Re: [etoys-dev] Squeak Etoys interface with Arduino (first version available)

In reply to this post by Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hello Ricardo.
>
> This is a great project.

Thanks!

>
> I got it running in an OLPC XO-1, with some minor tweaks to the
> Arduino.sh script.

That's great! I tried to do it a few days ago but even though Arduino worked I ended up breaking the Etoys activity :P

>
> it would be nice to have a use tutorial with examples README.txt is
> not very informative,

Yes, you're right. I just didn't have time to do it.

>
> .i saw you get inspired by the fritzing project!
> way to go!.

I'm glad you liked it, the Fritzing images are very nice.

>
> Thanks again for your hard work
>
>
> Rafael Ortiz

Cheers
Richo