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| + | In this section we will download and install the software that emulates a disk drive to the knitting machine. You can run this software on any kind of computer, mac/win/linux | ||
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| ====== Python code ====== | ====== Python code ====== | ||
| Now that you have the cable running, its time to download the software. Visit the Adafruit [[http://github.com/adafruit/knitting_machine|github]] repository and click on **Download** to download the source code. | Now that you have the cable running, its time to download the software. Visit the Adafruit [[http://github.com/adafruit/knitting_machine|github]] repository and click on **Download** to download the source code. | ||
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| - | You will need Python installed to run the code. To see if you have Python installed, open up a command line and type in **python**. If you're running Windows you probably don't have it, so download it from [[http://www.python.org/download/|the official Python site]] | + | You will need Python installed to run the code. To see if you have Python installed, open up a command line and type in **python**. If you're running Windows you probably don't have it, so download it from [[http://www.python.org/download/|the official Python site]]. You'll also need [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/|PySerial (serial interface for python) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/]] |
| Open up a command line (windows) or Terminal (mac) or xterm (linux) and **cd** to the **brother** directory and then type in **ls** (or **dir** if **ls** doesnt work) to list all the files | Open up a command line (windows) or Terminal (mac) or xterm (linux) and **cd** to the **brother** directory and then type in **ls** (or **dir** if **ls** doesnt work) to list all the files | ||
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