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WKHarmon / led-sectional

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A more detailed install or readme for newbs #20

Open nesincg opened 1 year ago

nesincg commented 1 year ago

My venture to this unknown area of Arduino will be be very apparent and I apologize.

I purchased your kit several months ago and am now getting down to making a map. I've made 6 in the past using pi zeros, but your pre-finished hardware looked great. Now I'm down to having no idea how to install your software. I sort of figured your kit would already have the software pre-installed and I'd just upload an airports file or something. That might be the case, I just don't know.

I downloaded the code and the only thing I can make sense of is led-sectional.ino. Seems like I would config and then upload that, but I can't figure that part out either. I have Arduino IDE and your board connected via USB but I can't upload anything. I says no such file or directory. It could by my choice of board in IDE as I can't seem to find one that would match your hardware.

I know you don't really supply help, but a beginner readme or install would be awesome. Perhaps I'm missing it. Perhaps you want to reach out via email, I'm cnesin on the Gmail. Thanks a million in advance. Chris

jivebiscuit commented 1 year ago

Which Arduino board are you using specifically?

nesincg commented 1 year ago

Thanks for getting back to me. I'm using the board from your kit.

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Which Arduino board are you using specifically?

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jivebiscuit commented 1 year ago

I'm not the author of the project, just another user, so I'm not familiar with the kit you're referring too.

JazzerAlto commented 1 year ago

You need the Ardurino IDE. https://www.arduino.cc/en/software. This will load the ino file and you can load it on to the board after you have configured your wifi and airport list. Refer to the software section on Kyle's site for more details on what libraries you need to install inside the software to make it compile correctly for the kit.