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INFINITE-e-textile-workshop-

The following steps show how to install Arduino IDE and some useful libraries. Having these installed on your PC allows you to use INFINITE e-textile toolkit to create interactive projects. Please install before the e-textile workshop.

Ask Mei on the workshop if you have a problem

Download Arduino IDE and Adafruit Feather M0 environment

You can follow Adafruit Feather M0 tutorail on Arduino IDE Setup then Using with Arduino IDE, or see the following steps in short

Step 1

Download and install the Arduino IDE from https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Step 2

Start the Arduino IDE, and in the menu bar click Arduino > Preference

Copy and paste the follow URL into Additional Boards Manager URLs, then click OK

https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json

Step 3

Click Tools > Board:>Board Manager..., on the search bar on top search Arduino SAMD Boards, click Install

Step 4

Same as Step 3, on the search bar on top search Adafruit SAMD, click Install

Step 5

Quite and reopen Arduino IDE, click Tools > Boards: > Adafruit Feather M0

Now your Arduino IDE is ready for Feather M0 board

Install library for movement and heating functions

To get started with the movement and heating functions, you need to download and install the library for the motor driver, click here to download. Once downloaded, unzip the folder. Then you will need to find where your Arduino IDE foler is located, and move the unzipped folder to Arduino -> Libraries, for example, my Arduino folder is located here:

Install library for MP3 player

To get started with the audio function, you need to install its library into the Arduino IDE, first, open Arduino menu Tools -> Manage Libraries

then, on the top right of the Library Manager window, search for Adafruit_VS1053, click install