To install and run this repo on your Pi,
- Install latest Raspbian image on a SD Card (use SD Card with 8 GB or more).
- Insert this SD card in your Raspberry Pi, affix Raspberry Pi on PiStorms frame and attach PiStorms to Raspberry Pi
for details of assembly instructions, visit: http://www.mindsensors.com/content/72-getting-started-with-pistorms - Start your Raspberry Pi and login to your Pi as user 'pi'.
- Run raspi-config and 'expand the file system'
- Configure your Pi to connect to Internet (using wired ethernet or wifi)
to learn how to do this, visit: http://www.mindsensors.com/blog/how-to/connecting-raspberry-pi-to-wifi - Download and configure this repo on your Pi with following commands
$ git clone https://github.com/mindsensors/PiStorms.git $ cd PiStorms/setup $ chmod +x setup.sh $ ./setup.sh
setup.sh will take several minutes to download files, and configure
When it configures VNC server, it would ask for password, please provide a password that you will remember (e.g. raspberry).
Later, you would use this password to login to your Pi from a VNC client.
As a next step, follow the examples from PiStorms/programs folder.
To write your own programs, start with a tutorial here: http://www.mindsensors.com/blog/how-to/pistorms-python-programming-tutorial
and then refer to online API reference here: http://www.mindsensors.com/reference/PiStorms/html/