Hello,
I'm a middle-school computer teacher and I'm pretty new to the world of making, but I'd like to do a few projects with my students using Adafruit Trinket. I've worked with Arduino before, but the cost-effectiveness of the Trinket makes it by far the best choice for my school. My only concern is that we only have Google Chromebooks at school - is there anything that enables programming on a Chromebook with the Adafruit Trinket? I know there are plugins like this available for Arduino, does anyone know if they are also compatible with Trinket?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... l?hl=en-US
Sorry for the n00b questions - Thanks for your help!
Adafruit Trinket and Chromebook
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- tdicola
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Re: Adafruit Trinket and Chromebook
Ah great question. I've used ChromeOS a bit and yeah unfortunately you're somewhat limited in its app selection. Normally the Arduino IDE needs Java to run and that's not going to work on a stock ChromeOS machine. Chromeduino I think reimplements Arduino's toolchain but using ChromeOS compatible functionality. I haven't tried Chromeduino though so I don't know if it will work.
One thing you might try though is Codebender, it's an online IDE for editing Arduino sketches and can even upload to Arduinos using a Chrome plugin (that I think but am not totally sure works with ChromeOS). They claim you can program Trinket here though: http://blog.codebender.cc/2015/09/04/tu ... ket-board/ I do worry they mention "Update: Chrome support for Gemma/Trinket changed in November 2015, so if it doesn’t work, try Firefox" which could be a problem on ChromeOS since you don't have the option of using Firefox as far as I know. You might try it but I can't say for sure it will work.
Another option is to install Linux on ChromeOS using something like crouton: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton I have used this tool and it works really well to give you a 'real' Linux desktop that you can install Java, the official Arduino IDE, etc. inside. I have a feeling this is going to be a lot more complicated than you want to do in a classroom though. Just mentioning it as another option. Good luck!
One thing you might try though is Codebender, it's an online IDE for editing Arduino sketches and can even upload to Arduinos using a Chrome plugin (that I think but am not totally sure works with ChromeOS). They claim you can program Trinket here though: http://blog.codebender.cc/2015/09/04/tu ... ket-board/ I do worry they mention "Update: Chrome support for Gemma/Trinket changed in November 2015, so if it doesn’t work, try Firefox" which could be a problem on ChromeOS since you don't have the option of using Firefox as far as I know. You might try it but I can't say for sure it will work.
Another option is to install Linux on ChromeOS using something like crouton: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton I have used this tool and it works really well to give you a 'real' Linux desktop that you can install Java, the official Arduino IDE, etc. inside. I have a feeling this is going to be a lot more complicated than you want to do in a classroom though. Just mentioning it as another option. Good luck!
- tzikis
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Re: Adafruit Trinket and Chromebook
Hey guys, just pitching in to confirm that codebender will work on ChromeOS, even Trinket/Gemma
It was unsupported for a while when Chrome changed their underlying technology for plugins, hence the warning notice, but you should be all set to use it on a Chromebook/ChromeOS device now
Cheers
P.S. I'm the founder of codebender ;)
It was unsupported for a while when Chrome changed their underlying technology for plugins, hence the warning notice, but you should be all set to use it on a Chromebook/ChromeOS device now
Cheers
P.S. I'm the founder of codebender ;)
Please be positive and constructive with your questions and comments.