Arduino

Installing the Arduino IDE on OLPC OS.

• Arduino 1.0.5 on OLPC OS 13.2.8,
• Arduino 1.8.5 on OLPC OS 13.2.8.

Choose a larger font

The default font is very small on the XO laptop, to fix it:

• Applications -> Programming -> Arduino,
• File -> Preferences,
• Editor font size to 18, OK,
• Quit and restart Arduino.

See also

• Arduino/Firmata
• XO Stick
• XOrduino
• XO_Stick/Bootloader
• XOrduino/bootloader
• How to use TurtleBots with the SparkFun ProtoSnap - Pro Mini
• How to use an Arduino as a Serial Adapter

References

• http://arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Fedora
• http://blog.makezine.com/2007/12/21/howto-run-arduino-on-the-xo-la/
• http://tonyforster.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/arduino-and-xo-laptop.html
• http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2012-January/034062.html
• http://tonyforster.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/arduino-fork-of-turtle-art.html
• http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt
• http://firmata.org/
• http://arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Firmata
• http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Firmata