I have begun to work with Intel Edison in order to adapt machines with limited or even none connectivity to the movement of IoT. This tiny platform is already prepared to work with Python but, if you want to work with Python, you want to work with pip. Pip is an amazing package manager where we can find almost all python libraries that we are going to use. |
Getting Started
The easiest way to communicate to the board is through the Serial Port:
To activate the WiFi is very easy, type:
Add Unofficial Repository
We began getting the latest Intel® IoT Developer Kit libraries.
root@edison:~# opkg update
root@edison:~# opkg upgrade
paste the following:
src/gz all http://repo.opkg.net/edison/repo/all
src/gz edison http://repo.opkg.net/edison/repo/edison
src/gz core2-32 http://repo.opkg.net/edison/repo/core2-32
close the file and update:
root@edison:~# opkg update
Install Pip
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pip", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
root@edison:~# tar zxf setuptools-12.2.tar.gz
root@edison:~# python setuptools-12.2/ez_setup.py
root@edison:~# python ez_setup.py --insecure
...
Successfully installed flask
Cleaning up...