One reason for this was that I felt I hadn’t progressed as far with playing with the kit as I had plannned; spending the day in front of a desk and computer for work, I hardly want to do the same in the evenings! Having the netbook working meant I could experiment with it on the sofa downstairs, while watching TV.
So I booted up the netbook (an Asus EEE 900) for the first time in months.
So I decided to blitz it and install another Linux on it. In the end, I plumped for Easy Peasy (umbunto-eee) – still not the latest in tech, but certainly better than Xandros, and (reportedly) easy to put on.
It wasn’t too bad – I did it once, and realised I had installed it on the wrong drive (the EEE has two solid state drives – one is fast and one is not so fast). So I did it again, and am very happy with the results. Am now up to a decent version of Firefox, and the Arduino software went on easily.
Furthermore, it paid off. I’ve spent the past 3 evenings working through the Arduino examples, and I even experimented with one of my remote thermometer probes, and confirmed I could read them from the arduino – it’s a simple circuit even I can understand.
So far, so good.
Be First to Comment