Can I program Wink on Chromebook? YES!
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 6:24 pm
I'm reaching out to other Wink enthusiasts with a question. I'd like to take Winks into a classroom filled with Chromebooks and be able to use them to program Arduino/Wink.
I've researched and found which reports to have an Arduino compatible IDE app for Chromebooks, which sounds perfect.
My only concern is the FTDI USB driver I had to specially install on my computer. The Wink programming board must be recognized by the device it is plugged into. Because standard Windows/IOS computers required me to manually install the FTDI driver, I don't know if the Chromebook is going to recognize the programming board automatically. If not, I don't know enough about Chromebooks to know if it's possible to change a setting or install a driver or what. Furthermore, the whole idea was to be able to walk into a school "chromebook" lab and have stuff just work.
Trouble is, I don't own a Chromebook. I'm getting ready to borrow one to try it out, but I'd appreciate it if anyone already knows the answer and save me the time. I'm confident that Codebender or ChromeDuino web apps will operate on an updated Chromebook. I just don't know if they will be able to access internal USB-to-SERIAL drivers for the programming board.
Has anybody tried to get Wink programming working on a Chromebook?
Thanks,
Wayne
I've researched and found which reports to have an Arduino compatible IDE app for Chromebooks, which sounds perfect.
My only concern is the FTDI USB driver I had to specially install on my computer. The Wink programming board must be recognized by the device it is plugged into. Because standard Windows/IOS computers required me to manually install the FTDI driver, I don't know if the Chromebook is going to recognize the programming board automatically. If not, I don't know enough about Chromebooks to know if it's possible to change a setting or install a driver or what. Furthermore, the whole idea was to be able to walk into a school "chromebook" lab and have stuff just work.
Trouble is, I don't own a Chromebook. I'm getting ready to borrow one to try it out, but I'd appreciate it if anyone already knows the answer and save me the time. I'm confident that Codebender or ChromeDuino web apps will operate on an updated Chromebook. I just don't know if they will be able to access internal USB-to-SERIAL drivers for the programming board.
Has anybody tried to get Wink programming working on a Chromebook?
Thanks,
Wayne