James Avery Jimbles

Girls into Electronics 2026 Arduino IDE install

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Install the Arduino IDE software https://www.arduino.cc/en/software/ version 2.0 or above (current version 2.3). There is an install guide here: https://docs.arduino.cc/software/ide-v2/tutorials/getting-started/ide-v2-downloading-and-installing/
Information about the Arduino kit can be found in more detail here https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/Grove-Beginner-Kit-For-Arduino/ which describes the sensors and electronics in each kit. As well as in the “Girls into Electronics 2026 Student Guide” print out https://www.ukesf.org/wp-content/uploads/Girls-into-Electronics-Student-Guide-Full-version-for-website.pdf
Before being able to program your kit you may need to install some USB drivers so that your PC recognises the kit. There is a handy guide for this https://www.yorku.ca/professor/drsmith/2024/03/06/driver-for-the-grove-beginner-kit-fo

Steps to install and build SOFA with soft robots from scratch on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine (windows host)

Naturally we start with update and installing git

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git

load module mpi/intel-2018

???

add this to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

network = {
ssid="eduroam"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021X
eap=PEAP
identity="#####@ucl.ac.uk"
anonymous_identity="anonymous@ucl.ac.uk"

Could install headless, but I wanted to use gui at first instance to ensure everything working!

Connect to wifi through GUI. Change hostname and ensure SSH enabled in raspberrypi config GUI change password with passwd .

Taken from here, add the following to the bottom of sudo nano /etc/dhcpcd.conf, changing ip addresses where appropriate

	%% read png and find countours

	% img=imread('ex_blob.png');

	%% make pretend bitmap image
	img_size=512;

	img=zeros(img_size,img_size);

	% make two squares of different values

	import sys
	import time
	import math
	sys.path.append("./Scripts")
	GUI_Module=__import__('Device_GUI')

	def FWR_read(input_mask, frequency=32, delay=0.5):
	set_frequency(frequency)
	GUI.write_register("AFE4300", "IQ_MODE_ENABLE", 0x00) #Select FWR Mode
	GUI.write_register("AFE4300", "ADC_CONTROL_REGISTER2", 0x63) #ADCREF to VREF / ADC connected to BCM