On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Torsten Sadowski <torsten.sadowski@tu-berlin.de> wrote:

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OSX is in many respects just unix so the bash script approach should also work. Everything necessary can be found in the Arduino.app. The main problem is that the tools won't be on the path. It is possible to work around this and I had it working once but I must admit that I later simply used the Arduino software to install Firmata to the board. With Firmata installed it simply works, if the right serial port is selected. I tried to continue to play with it recently but I could not get it to work in Squeak 4.2:�

Yes, if you install Firmata using the Arduino software it will work but you won't be able to compile/upload you scripts from within Smalltalk, which is something I've been working a lot recently and I think it's a very cool feature.

To fix the problem that the tools won't be on the path, what if we use symlinks to the arduino tools? Would that work? Or simply registering the arduino tools in the PATH variable?

Another thing that changed is the makefile, that probably needs to be updated too.

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ByteString(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #translatedNoop
ArduinoMorph class>>descriptionForPartsBin

That's not a big deal, just implement the following methods and it should work:

String>>translatedNoop

^ self

String>>translated

^ self

Cheers,

Richo

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Cheers,
Torsten

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> If you want to use arduino with your kids I would recommend buying an ArduinoUNO (the latest version) and some starter kit like http://www.trossenrobotics.com/store/p/6335-Electronic-Brick-Starter-kit.aspx (these kits are specially useful for people like me that don't understand a thing about electronics).
> The coolest thing about arduino is the huge amount of libraries, examples, tutorials and stuff in general that you can find on the web. And in case you don't want to program in C, even though you can't use Physical Etoys on Mac for the moment, there are some very nice graphical IDEs (I don't remember the name but there was one that ran directly on the browser and it had a graphical interface similar to scratch, very very nice).
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> Richo
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