I have bought a Pycom makr WiPy to have a play with Micro Python, the recommended IDE is atom with Pymakr Atom Package, however it doesn’t work out the box as designed due to an issue with Atom and Pymakr.
After you have installed Atom from atom.io, you can open it for the first time; go to the Preferences menu, and install pymakr the version I am installing is 1.4.18, once you have installed it you will get an error message like this: “Could not locate the bindings file”
Using HomeBrew, we will install node
brew install node
Once that has run check the installed versions:
skippy@Thrud ~ % node -v v13.1.0 skippy@Thrud ~ % npm -v 6.12.1 skippy@Thrud ~ % apm --version apm 2.4.3 npm 6.2.0 node 10.2.1 x64 atom 1.41.0 python 2.7.16 git 2.24.0
Exit Atom and we will do some magic incantations
install -g prebuild npm install -g prebuild-install cd ~/.atom/packages/pymakr/node_modules/\@serialport/bindings prebuild-install --runtime electron --target 4.2.5 --tag-prefix @serialport/bindings@ --verbose
Plug in your Pycom board and restart Atom:
Heading back to the getting started guide I will jump back in at “Your first Pymakr Project“:
- Firstly you will need to create a new, empty, directory on your computer. For this example we will create one called RGB-Blink.
- Next you will need to open either Atom
- Once the text editor has loaded you will need to click File > Open, and open the directory you created in step 1
We make sure that Atom has the correct project for the WiPy
You can either follow the rest of the guide, or download my copy of RGB-Blink RGB-Blink.
