Getting Arduino Working on Slackware

So a few years back I picked up an Arduino Duemilanove from the makershed. I had seen all these awesome projects and works of art across the web from makezine and hackaday. Inspired I picked up this little micro-controller and started to play, but then I set it down for a bit, changed from windows back to Slackware Linux and got rolling in web stuff again.

I returned to school in January and soon joined the computer engineering club. After the first meeting I pulled out my arduino and then told them about it the following week. The advisor was ecstatic with what I had in my hands. I started to plan and think what I wanted to do with it and art club inspired me to do an art piece. I am sourcing parts for that so its still to come. but in the mean time to learn motor control I got an adafruit motor shield and started braining a toy RC car. I plan on posting more on my rover project soon here and having a thread on Lets Make Robots

The computer I was using to upload code was my girlfriends net-book and I returned that this week so she would have it for school. I had to be able to upload code to the Arduino to work on my rover for this week I have off school. so I followed the guide at “Getting started with Arduino and Slackware” , and the first time it did not work. so I tried rolling back my gcc-core and g++ to 4.3.4 from 4.5.3, and a few more Google searches later I realized it may have just been the permissions were set wrong for me to use it. I found out about the groups from theĀ  Arduino page on Slackware Linux set-up. I changed the permissions of the /dev/ttyUSBx (mine was 0) with a chmod 666 and checked the arduino IDE and saw that the COM port was usable to upload code to the board. I updated back to gcc 4.5.3 and uploaded the blink code to verify that everything was working. So happy I am able to get back to my code hacking now.

 

another link of use http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/Linux

Current system:

Name: Moya

OS: Slackware 13.37

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