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Participants are expected to follow the setup instructions and have their machines ready before the tutorial at 12:45pm Sunday, 29 July 2018. Be aware that fully testing setup requires access to the hardware that will be used during the tutorial. I will be available during the day on Saturday 28 July 2018 with the necessary hardware. Please contact me via Discord or Twitter (@kattni) or via email ([email protected]) to find me before the tutorial to verify that setup was successful.

For this tutorial, participants will want to install Mu editor.

Mu 1.0 was released on 20 July 2018. If you installed Mu before this, please update to the most recent version.

Windows users may install Mu from here.

Mac users may install Mu from here.

Linux users must be running Python 3.6 or newer. Install by running sudo apt install python3. Then, install pip3 by running sudo apt install python3-pip.

Next, create a virtual environment: python3.6 -m venv pyohiocp. Follow the instructions to install venv if it is not already installed. To activate the virtual environment, run source ~/pyohiocp/bin/activate. Once inside the virtual environment (pyohiocp), install Mu by running pip3 install mu-editor.

Linux users must add their user to the dialout group to access the serial console output. From the command line, run nano /etc/group. Find the line with dialout: and add your user to the end of the line, after a comma with no space, i.e. dialout:foo,your_user. Then, log out of the user and log back in for the change to take affect.

To run Mu on Windows, double-click the icon.

To run Mu on Mac, double-click the icon in the Applications folder.

To run Mu on Linux, from inside the virtual environment, type python3 -m mu into the command line.

Once Mu is opened, it will present a list of options. For this tutorial, choose "Adafruit CircuitPython".

If there is no CircuitPython compatible board plugged in when the editor is opened, there will be a dialog box that starts with "Could not find an attached Adafruit CircuitPython device". This is normal.

This repo contains all the code used in the tutorial. To access it during the tutorial, you may view it on the web as you follow along. You may wish to have the files available locally. To do this, install git and clone the repo to your machine using git clone https://github.com/kattni/pyohio_2018_cp to create a directory containing the contents of the repo.

If you choose to clone the repo locally, please do a git pull on this cloned repository either in the evening of Saturday July 28 or in the morning of Sunday July 29.