Welcome to Dino

Get Started In No Time

Dino was designed to help you start working with your Arduino in minutes.

Install the Gem

gem install dino

Upload the Bootstrapper

• Open the normal Arduino IDE
• Download the bootstrapper src/du.ino
• Open the file in the Arduino IDE
• Plug in your Arduino via USB
• Click the upload button (an arrow)

Verify Install

• Build the sample circuit examples/led/led.png
• From your terminal, execute ruby example/led/led.rb
• Observe your LED blinking continuously

Examples and Tutorials

Circuits and Programs

• Take a look in the example directory for small component examples
• Try Getting Started with Arduino and Dino from Jumpstart Lab, building a number-guessing game and a simple nightlight
• An example rails app using Dino and Pusher
• For a Sinatra example look at the site used to shoot the cannon at RubyConf2012

Explanatory Talks

• "Arduino the Ruby Way" at RubyConf 2012
  • Video by ConFreaks
  • Slides on SpeakerDeck