Alright, here are going to be the steps we take to get this awesome tool to run with scratch under ubuntu. Keep in mind I could not have set any of this up without the help of Michael Badger, and Jeffrey Elkner for contacting him for me, thanks.
NOTE: this has been tested under Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid LTS 32 bit and works well from my experience with it. Also, this process only has to be done once for it to be loaded on each reboot as far as I know.
1. go here to get the USB drivers for ubuntu
2. download and extract them to your desktop
3. open up a terminal by going into Applications>Accessories>Terminal
4.in the terminal, type this: sudo modprobe ftdi_sio and hit enter.
5. go into scratch and in the sensing tab you should find a seperated section at the bottom, these are the blocks you use to take input from the pico \board, they can be subbed in for values for multiple uses, Have fun.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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