Incompatible with Arduino

Sparki
#21

[quote=“MathiasW”]Salut,

I removed the Sparki fork of the Arduino IDE and did a clean install of the Arduino IDE.
I then imported the library into the IDE using the IDE itself and connected the Sparki. It is recognized as an Arduino Leonardo.
I loaded the “Wall avoiding” sketch, fixed the errors and was able to upload to Sparki.
Ciao, Mathias[/quote]

Salut et bon matin.

I did similar to Mathias.

[ul]
[li] saved board.txt from SparkiDuino (only the top part is needed)[/li]
[li] Removed SparkiDuino[/li]
[li] did a clean install of Arduino IDE[/li]
[li] imported the library through the IDE[/li]
[li] prepended the lines from SparkiDuino’s board.txt to the Arduino’s one - that one turned out to be tougher than expected as the file is read-only, and Windows would not play nice and let me change it. I’m running Windows 8.1 I almost took a hammer to it. [/li]
[li] was unable to find anything to do with sparki.ini (in fact I never saw that file ever)[/li][/ul]

Most of it is now working. The one thing I’m working on right now is Melody. It requires a header file to compile, but I don’t see where to get it from. So almost set up properly. We do need an easier way.

#22

Given the interest demonstrated, we’ll be shortly releasing a guide on how to integrate Sparki into the mainstream distribution.

As you can see, these problems are exactly why we created SparkiDuino to begin with, to avoid all this hassle. We experienced this a lot in pilot testing. There’s nothing conflicting about using two different IDEs, they work fine side by side. The drivers especially are an issue, as to be properly installed they need to be installed with Microsoft’s dpinst.exe tool, with the signed .cat file included. We’ll release the driver installer as a separate .exe for people going this route.

#23

[quote=“roboalchemist”]
As you can see, these problems are exactly why we created SparkiDuino to begin with, to avoid all this hassle. We experienced this a lot in pilot testing. There’s nothing conflicting about using two different IDEs, they work fine side by side. [/quote]

That’s all I needed to hear. I’ll stay with my two IDEs. No time for additional headaches when getting my kids up and running on Sparki.

#24

Is there any difference in the sparki.ini driver found in SparkiDuino-Win-1.0.5.3.zip and the standard Arduino Leonardo driver that Windows installs?

Thank you,