Gadgeteer tutorials and more new products

Support – GHI Electronics click on the gadgeteer tutorial tab. Not soon yet but it is a good start.

I didn’t tell you this but if you read between the lines, you will learn about some new products to be announced soon :slight_smile:

How can you help? Please add a tutorial or part of a tutorial to one of the modules. Any little bit helps. So who is helping, Santa is asking :slight_smile:

Do not worry if you make a good or bad tutorial. This is a wiki, you add something, someone else will fix, someone will will improve…etc.

Cool!

I’ll start with LED7R module.

There is a template to add at very beginning that directs people to the very first tutorial they should read. Please copy it from another tutorial.

I can add it if you want.

Thanks a bunch.

Copied it from Load Module tutorial.

Once the IO60P16 driver is done, I’ll add a tutorial for it also.

I did the SP module outline, but I reckon there’s still a gap in the info we have (and it’s more than just Gadgeteer). I think we need to have a “how do I check my firmware version” for all the products, because sometimes they’re specific (eg Spider and Cobra are different because of switches vs buttons to get into bootloader, even though you apply the EMX process to update them). My reasoning is that with all the varieties of boards we’re now seeing we need a “granular” approach to getting started where we show some of these fundamental steps and show where there may be a specific step for each platform.

Gus, thoughts on where I might slot this into the overall guides?

I also wonder about the Gadgeteer First Project, it does require a few bits of knowledge that may not be present; I personally think we need to help guide people, particularly new users, past those first few hurdles and help them get to a point where their first app (“Blink that LED”) is a reality and allows them to prove their install of everything has been done correctly. Am I being to basic in my approach? Thoughts?

I think you’re right on. I think every tutorial should assume the user’s knows nothing. If there is something they need to know then the tutorial that provides that info should be linked or if not available then the info should be included.

Brett, Yes but we have to be careful not to make the tutorial so big that no one reads.

The module tutorials are not to get users started. They assume you did read the first project page. There is a page for firmware update, a link will be added tomorrow.

Note a beginner maybe a school student who needs to read the first project but do not need firmware update, her teacher did that!

GHI’s is on fire! Check all the tutorials they have been putting in on wiki.
Sorry, I wasn’t much of a help.

By the way. The most recent addition to the modules is not presented on the support page.

Yes, will add them :slight_smile: thanks

That was fast! Full tutorials on some of the new modules already!