SETKEH

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I am a First time Aery32 user and fairly new to Micro Controllers all together and i Recently had an Aery32 Donated to me and i have just had a chance to look at seting it up ill go through how i did it. Im Running Archlinux 64Bit on Kernel 3.10.7-1-ARCH as of this writing though it should work on all Linux Distro's.

The Setup.

So the initial setup is farily easy, Most of these Steps can be found in the Quick Start Guide.

First things First install DFU-Programmer

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install dfu-programmer

Archlinux: You Can use Yaourt or your Favorite AUR Helper

yaourt dfu-programmer

or you can Download the AUR Tarball and user makepkg to build a DFU-Programmer Archlinux Package and install it Using.

sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz

Then Follow AVR 32-bit Toolchain on Linux by Kim Blomqvist Who Kindly Posted that to Devzone.

Then you can Clone the Aery32 Github Repo.

git clone https://github.com/aery32/aery32

Then

cd aery32

The Last Thing to do is add a Udev Rule so that your linux Machine can see and give you access to your aery32 following W|zzys Guide for Udev You will also need to Add your user to the plugdev group.

sudo gpasswd -a YouUserName plugdev

Awesome were all done :D

Testing.

Now you can Either modify main.cpp as it states in the Quick Start Guide Yourself or you can use My Pre Modified one. Then we can compile and uplaod the code to the Aery.

make programs

This is where i had another issue and the point of writing this article.

setkeh@Workstation-Arch ~/github/aery32 (git)-[master] % make programs
dfu-programmer at32uc3a1256 erase
make: *** [dfu-program] Error 1

NOTE: This is Simaler to the udev error outlined in W|zzy's blog post but its not the same issue and from what i understand and chatting with W|zzy this issue seems to be only an issue on the REV 0 Aery.

The fix for this is pretty simple open up the Aery32 Makefile in your favorite editor.

Change Line41 from:

MPART=uc3a1256

To:

MPART=uc3a1128

Now when you run make programs you should see something like this:

setkeh@Workstation-Arch ~/github/aery32 (git)-[master] % make programs
dfu-programmer at32uc3a1128 erase
dfu-programmer at32uc3a1128 flash aery32.hex
Validating...
5080 bytes used (4.13%)
dfu-programmer at32uc3a1128 start
dfu-programmer: failed to release interface 0.
make: *** [dfu-start] Error 1

Now im not 100% sure what the failed to release error is all about though it can be safely ignored and you program should start running after the make is completed it does not seem to have any bearing on the operation of the toolchain and Aery at all dispite this error my programs compile and upload fine of course if you know how to fix it please hit me up in #aery32 on freenode.

I hope this helps any newbies like myself get there aery32 boards setup ready for development in there linux enviroments, I have Enjoyed writing this article and hope to write more :D Good luck on your Aery Projects.

App

Dev Web Site

This App is Pure Genius. Released Under the Creative Commons Licence

I have been looking for some time to get notifications from my Evo 3D to my PC because i have a bad habbit of leaving it in the lounge room or office when i get busy around the house or leaving it on silent so it doesenteven viberate when i get home from tafe, This App nullifies my noob in these situations because after yu have setup some basic stuff it will notify you about Phone Calls, TxT Messages, even battery state. The setup is Incredibly Simple and as easy as pointing and clicking for the most part it even supports encrypting the notifications if you were using it on a public network.

Things i Have Tested and Work:
Wifi Notifications
Bluetooth Notifications
Wifi Broadcasting (Great for reciving notifications on more that one PC within a network)
Dbus Notification Support with the Naughty Library in Awesome (Needs a bit of tweaking)

And So far im super impressed with the functionallity and stability of the application and its PC Clients and is S.A.N.E Notification Method.

I rate this app a Perfect 10/10 for simplicity tonns of options and fantastic usability i highly recommend giving this app a shot :D

So, I've just finished up setting up this brand new blog. Before I've always run a WordPress blog, but since WordPress is kind of over-kill with all it features that I don't need, I've decided to try something new, so this time I am running a static blog with Jekyll.

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from GitHub.

So after I started using jekyll, I don't need any database server, because everything is stored in static files. It also means I can use whatever editor I want to use (nano or vim) to write my blog posts in markdown.

So if I want to publish a new post, I simply do:

rake post title="Super awesome post"

That will generate a new markdown file, which I then just edit with my desired editor and then do:

git add .
git commit -m "Added new content"
git push origin master

Note: The actual git server is github but this is optional you can use any git server you like or use RSYNC or FTP or even SCP the options are virtually limitless. My Blog Repo

With a Cronjob to automagicly pull the repo from github every 5 minutes (the time limit is purely optional i set 5 minutes for testing purposes)

*/5 * * * * cd /srv/www/setkeh/ && git pull

And that will push my new post over to my server and it will be live on the internet.

I love this solution, it's so simple and it super lightweight, since all the web server will need do is just serving some static files, and not generating dynamic content in some scripting language and fetching content from a database server, like it would do if I used something like WordPress.

If you want make your own blog like this, make sure to checkout Jekyll and Jekyll-Bootstap as well as my examples setkeh-blog.

Some Really big changes coming soon now that everything seems to be working so please take the chance to check back soon :)