17 August 2012

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For more information visit http://www.fireflyexperiments.com
To install FireFly (required only once):
---------------------------------------Launch Rhino and type the word Grasshopper
he Grasshopper Editor.

in the command line. This will launch t

Click on File>Special Folders> Components Folder

Delete any prior versions of the Firefly.gha or Firefly_X.gha build files or the
libTUIO.dll or C_sawapan_media.dll files that may be in this folder.
Open the Firefy Installation folder that was just downloaded (in the zip folder)
and copy all the contents of the Firefly Build folder (Firefly.gha, Firefly_X.g
ha, Firefly_Bridge.dll, libTUIO.dll, and C_sawapan_media.dll) into the Component
s Folder that was opened from within Rhino.
Now, Restart Rhino and Grasshopper
******NOTE: If you are having problems getting Firefly to load properly in Rhino
5.0 beta******
Open the Special Components folder (where we just copied the 5 files) and rightclick on each file and select "Properties". Under the General tab, check the box
to "Unblock" the file. Do this for each of the three files.
Now, Restart Rhino and Grasshopper

To load Firefly Firmata on your Arduino board (required only once):

------------------------------------------------------------------First, copy/paste the contents of the 'Arduino Code' folder (should include 4 fo
lders) from the zip file into your Arduino sketch folder (generally found in C:\
Username\Documents\Arduino)
Launch the Arduino 1.0 IDE application and open the Firefly Firmata sketch:
File > Sketchbook > Firefly_Uno_Firmata > Firefly_Uno_Firmata.ino.
Click on Tools > Boards and make sure you have assigned the appropriate board.
Click on Tools > Serial Port and make sure you have designated the appropriate C
OM # (these are automatically assigned when you connect your board to your compu
ter).
Make note of the assigned COM# as we will need this once we open Grasshopper.
Select the "Upload" button (at top).
Wait a few seconds - you should see the RX and TX leds on the board flashing. If
the upload is successful, the message Done uploading. will appear in the status b
ar.
Congratulations! Your Arduino board is now ready to "talk" to Grasshopper.

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The C_sawapan_media.dll library was created by Panagiotis Michalatos and Sawako
Kaijima - founders of Sawapan, a computational design and consultancy group base
d out of London, UK. For more information about their work, visit: www.sawapan.
eu
The libTUIO.dll library was developed by Martin Kaltenrunner and Ross Bencina at
the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.