See the release announcement on BotBench for more information.
- A Linux (virtual) installation. I used Ubuntu 13.04 on VMware Workstation, but I am sure other combinations also work.
- Eclipse. I used Helios Service Release 1, but I know more recent versions will also work.
- Java JRE (for Eclipse)
- Code Sourcery Lite for ARM version 2009q1-203. You can download here directly.
- A USB to serial port dongle. You need to splice an NXT cable and hook up dig0 (pin 5) and dig1 (pin 6) to TX and RX, not 100% which way around. GND is pin 2 and 3, just pick one. The brick’s console is on port 1 and has a baud rate of 115200 8N1. I have a pre-made one with an NXT socket, it’s not actually as fancy as it sounds.
- An SD card to put your custom firmware on. It doesn’t use up a lot of space, but I’d stick with a simple 2GB one
- A pair of flat-nosed pliers, for removing the SD card
- A Netgear WNA1100 WiFi dongle. It is currently the only WiFi dongle that is supported by the EV3’s firmware.
Use Git to clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/mindboards/ev3sources.git
The scripts in the EV3 sources expect the source code to live in a projects folder in your home directory. You will need to create a projects symlink to the ev3sources folder that was created when you cloned the Git repo.
I’ll publish some more elaborate HOWTOs in the next few days, for now, take a look at the scripts in ev3sources/lms2012/open_first. You can open the lms2012 folder in Eclipse to open all of the sub projects, including the kernel modules and shared libraries.
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