Day Two

Security and usage of Machines

Preparing for pre academy
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Day two (19 October 2015 ) we are Preparing for pre Fab academy .In our Laptops and Lab Computers installed by latest Ubuntu Desktop LTS (currently 14.04)

Francisco recommended that each student uses an A4 paper notebook with no detachable sheets. Do not use sheets. Reason is that you will lose the sheet

What to write down
• Date
• Machine used
• Material (thickness, type, color…)
• Settings (speeds, feed rates...)
• Results (what worked, what didn’t)
• Debugging

Preparing Computers
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First backup important data and files to USB or Cloud

Install latest Ubuntu
For installing Ubuntu formatted one of my drives and prepared the drive. It was a 100 Gb drive and deleted the partition. Started Installation using a bootable pen drive containing Ubuntu Desktop LTS (currently 14.04). Using the disk management tool created on 50 Gb partition for root and 40 Gb for home and allocated the remaining for Swap a

install software using Ubuntu software center
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With the Ubuntu Software Center, you just open it from the Launcher, and search for the application that you want. If you know the right commands to install via terminal, then you'd just press Ctrl + Alt + T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, you can run the command(s) needed to install the application

Install software using apt-get
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We first installing software via APT you'll need to update it's database of available packages firstthen

open the terminal window and type

apt-get update

Then Installing a package

apt-get install name-of-package

Compiling and Installing
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First install with the following command

sudo apt-get install intltool

Use the following command to compile the program

Make

After this command finishes, the program is successfully compiled — but it’s not installed. Use the following command to install it to your system

sudo make install

“Terminal here” addon for Nautilus
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Open new terminal window and enter the code

Code for that

$ sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

Thent

$ sudo nautilus –q

After that when we restarted nautilus and right clicked we had that open in terminal option.

Fab modules compiled version
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To install Fab Modules Compiled version, Franc shared this URL http://kokompe.cba.mit.edu/

Procedures to install fab modules ,

Download Fab Modules.zip from the link. http://kokompe.cba.mit.edu/fab_src.zip Unzip the downloaded file Install the dependencies using this single code

$ sudo apt get install python python-wxgtk2.8 python-dev python-pip gcc g++ libpng12-dev libgif-dev make bash okular libboost-thread-dev libboost-system-dev cmake

Then

$ fab

Now open a new window

Antimony
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1. Install QT.

Download Qt from here and right click on the downloaded file and set permision to run as executable file. Then double click on the file and continue the install

2.Run the following code

Run the following code in terminal to install other reqiured dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libpng-dev python3-dev libboost-all-dev libgl1-mesa-dev lemon flex

3. 14.04 ships with gcc 4.8

You'll need to update the compiler manually

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test

Then

sudo apt-get update

Then

sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 g++-4.9

Then

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.9 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.9


4. Clone the Github repo to your pc

$ git clone https://github.com/mkeeter/antimony


5. Change Directory

$ cd antimony


6.Make Directory Build

$ mkdir build


7. Change Dirctory Build

$ cd build


8.If you installed another version of Qt change the link appropriately

I renamed the folder in home to Qt and version i installed is 5.5

$ ~/Qt/5.5/gcc_64/bin/qmake ../sb.pro


9. Make

$ make -j8


10. Install App

$ sudo make install


11. Open App

$ ./app/antimony

Kokopelli retro (editing Neil’s circuit boards)
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Download zip from this link http://kokompe.cba.mit.edu/.
Unzip the folder Open folder in terminal follow the codes

Code for that

$ make fab

Then

$ cd bin

Then

$ ./kokopelli -r