Content for Chicago Linux User's Group Project Night Workshop, 20 December 2018.
The following instructions walk through setup needed to complete this workshop.
For this workshop, participants will want to install Mu editor.
Windows users may install Mu from here.
Mac users may install Mu from here.
Windows 7 and 8 users must the install drivers found in the CircuitPython_Installer_Libraries_Drivers folder in this repo.
Linux users must be running Python 3.6 or newer. Install by running sudo apt install python3.
Then, install pip3 by running sudo apt install python3-pip.
Next, create a virtual environment: python3 -m venv .muenv. Follow the instructions to
install venv if it is not already installed. To activate the virtual environment, run
source .muenv/bin/activate. Once inside the virtual environment (.muenv), install Mu
by running pip3 install mu-editor.
Linux users must add their user to the dialout group to access the serial console output. From
the command line, run nano /etc/group. Find the line with dialout: and add your user to the
end of the line, after a comma with no space, i.e. dialout:foo,your_user. Then, log out of the
user and log back in for the change to take affect.
To run Mu on Windows, double-click the icon.
To run Mu on Mac, double-click the icon in the Applications folder.
To run Mu on Linux, from inside the virtual environment, type python3 -m mu or mu-editor
into the command line.
Once Mu is opened, it will present a list of options. For this workshop, choose "Adafruit CircuitPython".
If there is no CircuitPython compatible board plugged in when the editor is opened, there will be a dialog box that starts with "Could not find an attached Adafruit CircuitPython device". This is normal.
This repo contains all the content used in the workshop. To access it during the workshop,
you may view it on the web as you follow along. You may wish to have the files available
locally. To do this, you can clone the repo using git, visit the repo on the web and
click on the "Clone or download" button and choose "Download ZIP", or use the zip download
link.