Category Archives: How-to

Playing with SparkFun’s BigTime Watch Kit

I ‘ve decided to work every year between Dec 25 and the new year day on a fun project that I might feel… tol “embarrassed” to work on on any other occasion. Last year it was an arduino-based game console with a 4×20 LCD screen and 4 buttons (about which I should write sometime). This [...]

Also posted in Projects | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Loading the FTDI serial module on the SheevaPlug

I had some trouble loading the FTDI serial module that allows me to access the console of the SheevaPlug. Thanks to Matt, I found out that in the recent past the vendor and product codes that the kernel module uses have changed and therefore when the module loads it can’t find the hardware that is [...]

Posted in How-to | Leave a comment

Installing lightblue-0.4 binaries on OSX 10.6.3

First, download lightblue-binaries.tar and untar it. Then follow these steps: $ cd lb $ mv LightAquaBlue.framework /Library/Frameworks/ $ tar zxf lightblue-0.4.macosx-10.6-universal.tar.gz $ mv Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/lightblue /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/ $ unzip LightAquaBlue-python-MacOS10.6.zip Archive: LightAquaBlue-python-MacOS10.6.zip creating: LightAquaBlue/ inflating: LightAquaBlue/__init__.py inflating: LightAquaBlue/LightAquaBlue.bridgesupport $ mv LightAquaBlue /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/ And this concludes the installation process. Here is some testing: $ python Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, [...]

Posted in How-to | 1 Comment