Installation

To install the environment on your Raspberry Pi, it’s really simple please follow the installation steps and do not hesitate to ask for Support)

  • a computer with an SD slot or equivalent.
  • Raspberry Pi 2 or higher (the ISO has been testing with Raspberry Pi 3B+)
  • Makeblock board based on Arduino (Orion, BaseBoard, mCore, Shield, Auriga, MegaPi)
  • 8 Gb SD card minimum (but 16 GB is recommanded)
  • basic knowledge of Arduino and Ubuntu

Installation steps

  1. Download the ISO file.
  1. Download Balena Etcher for Linux, Windows or macOS, a easy tool to flash ISO image on SD card.
  1. Open Balena Etcher software, select the ISO image downloaded, select your SD card and flash !
  2. Insert the SD card into the RPI
  3. connect your keyboard, mouse and hdmi screen to your RPI and connect the power cable.
  4. Set-up your wifi (or ethernet) connection.
  5. Open a terminal and launch:
makeblock@makeblock:~$ sudo apt-get update
makeblock@makeblock:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Note: The root password of the environnment is “mb”.

  1. You can now start to develop robotics projects !

Alternative installation

If you already have your own environment and you just want to use the projects and examples, you need to download the Makeblock librairies for Arduino. Then, all the codes and examples are available on Github. https://github.com/joachimhgg/makeblock-rover