Preaparing ourselves was the goal for our second day, First of all he asked us to buy a notebook which will be our reference while further Documentation Procedure [which really helped :-) ] and asked to write Date Machine used Material (thickness, type, color…) Settings (speeds, feed rates...) Results (what worked, what didn’t) Debugging and the second task for the day was to prepare our own computer to work with all the way of course, and for me this was a real transition eventhough my computer has ubuntu and windows i was never using ubuntu, Untill this day after this day just became an ubuntu lover and what i had was ubuntu 12.04 and updated the same to ubuntu 15.10 ,also learned to install softwares in the ubuntu.Installed almost prescribed softwares and faced some problem with “antimony” installation and that helped to learn how to file an issue and all, i got response from the mkeeter(one who owns the repository) and helped me to setup antimony in my system. Assignment for today:
- To install the following list of softwares.
- “Terminal here” addon for Nautilus
- fab modules compiled version
- Instructions in kokompe web site http://kokompe.cba.mit.edu/
- kokopelli retro (editing Neil’s circuit boards)
- Install dependencies from kokompe web site http://kokompe.cba.mit.edu/
- Unzip the folder
- Open folder in terminal
- make fab
- cd bin
- ./kokopelli -r
- antimony ( Problem faced - It did not compile correctly for the first 4 tries. I had to delete the entire cloned folder, re-clone it and build again. After some tries it got installed.)
- inkscape
- openscad
- gimp
- cura
- arduino IDE (not the ubuntu software center version)
- attiny addon for arduino IDE
- processing
- qcad
- git
- eagle
- kicad
- wine
- partworks in wine
- Text editor of your choice