Thanks. > > > Pharo is unable to find some dependencies for Arduino –Compiler: CppKit, > > > CppTranslatedProgram, CppProgramTranslator & CProgram. > > > Do you have any idea on how to fix this ? > > > > Did you try the image provided by ricardo because it works for etoy > > normally. > > > > Thanks for the reminder, Stef. If you want to try a one-click image for > > linux, I made this a couple of weeks ago: > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43706148/arduino.tar.gz. It's just for testing and > > it's based on the Etoys image, but it should be enough to get you started. > > > > If you try it, please tell me how does that work for you. > > I'm on mac and I do not have a board but I would love to have one to try. > Does arduino work on Mac? > > Well, what we did used to work in Mac thanks to Torsten Sadowski (cc'ed, I > hope he doesn't mind), who took the time to make it work. However, a lot of > things have changed since then and I can't tell for sure what is still > working now (specially because I don't have a Mac available for testing). > > The main problem is the communication with the outside world, specially with > avr (which is needed to compile and upload programs to the board). As you > know, Pharo/Squeak/Etoys lacks proper support for this sort of things, which > we managed to get around by using FFI or OSProcess (depending on the > platform) and a couple of bash scripts. These scheme is overly complicated > and error-prone but has worked well for now (at least on windows). > > The current unix version was done a couple of weeks ago and it's not 100% > tested, but I hope it won't give many troubles. If someone is interested in > making it work on Mac I can give you a few pointers on where to start > looking, I'm confident it shouldn't be too difficult since it's a matter of > adapting what has been done for unix.
Ok let us know so that are can give hand. > > What do you suggest to order to have fun with kids. > > 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). ok I will order some to see. > 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). > > Cheers, > Richo > > > > > Stef > > >
