windows

mac

Serial connections

Linux

Download PuTTy

Use "screen" utility

Use "screen" utility

Press "Down" to view videos showing how to establish serial connections on each OS.

http://bit.ly/xdk-setup

serial connection on osx

Open terminal, type 'screen /dev/cu.usbs' then hit Tab to autocomplete, add '115200 -L' and hit Enter twice at blank screen

serial connection on Linux

$ sudo apt-get install screen
$ sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

Install 'screen,' use "/dev/ttyUSB0 115200" and hit Enter twice at blank screen

serial connection on Windows

Download PuTTy, select 'serial,' set baud rate to 115200, use Device Manager to find your COM port, hit Enter twice at blank screen

Note: Select the COM port that isn't the virtual COM port

XDK Blink

$ wpa_cli status

Record your edison ip

Open a serial connection to your Edison and run this command in the shell. Write down your IP address.

Install XDK IoT Edition

Install  Intel XDK for Mac, Linux, Windows and create an account. You will need to use a *strong* password 8+ chars, one letter, one number, one special character!

Create project

Create a new blink project from the provided template in Intel XDK.

Connect Edison

Connect to your Edison, update the XDK Daemon, deploy the sketch.

Install the XDK Daemon when prompted

Alternate deploy process

deploy code

1. Open FileZilla
2. Enter Edison IP
3. Use "root" as user
4. Use your PW
5. Port 22
6. Quickconnect
7. Drag & drop!

Download FileZilla Here

FileZilla is an easy way to get code over to your Edison once it is online

npm init

$ mkdir code
$ cd code
$ npm init
$ name: (code) demo
$ version: (1.0.0) 1.0.0
$ description: blink
$ entry point: blink.js
$ test command: 
$ git repository: 
$ keywords: 
$ license: (ISC) 

var mraa = require('mraa');
var myOnboardLed = new mraa.Gpio(13); 
myOnboardLed.dir(mraa.DIR_OUT); 
var ledState = true;
periodicActivity();

function periodicActivity()
{
  myOnboardLed.write(ledState?1:0);
  ledState = !ledState;
  setTimeout(periodicActivity,1000);
}

{
  "name": "OnboardLEDBlink",
  "description": "",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "main": "blink.js",
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=0.10.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
  }
}

package.json

blink.js

Basic project

Edit your project using your IDE of choice!

$ cat package.json
$ touch blink.js
$ open blink.js 

running the code

$ npm install
$ node index.js

Run the above command in your terminal to run the blink example

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