A desktop screen that displays a live counter of your Etsy store orders!
Powered by FreeRTOS on a ESP-8266 microcontroller
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This project extends the esp-open-rtos makefile.
You should follow standard instructions in the esp-open-rtos README to ensure your environment has the dependencies necessary to build the project.
Next you must setup your secrets in the ./config.h file. See instructions in
./config.example.h to get started.
Once you've setup your secrets, you can flash your board with this project's firmware by executing the following commands in your terminal:
$ make rebuild
$ make flash
Depending on your operating system and connected peripherals, you may need
to change the SERIAL_PORT variable in ./Makefile. To find the path of
your connected microcontroller, try looking at the results of ls /dev.
This project is developed within a virtualized instance of Ubuntu.
The Makefile also includes a utility target dev which will step your
shell into a containerized image which has the necessary dependency for
esp-open-rtos. On MacOSX, because of limitations with Docker, you can not
mount usb devices to a docker container. This means that utility targets
like flash and erase_flash must be invoked outside of the container.
You can view the serial output of your microcontroller by using whichever
program you'd like, just set the baud rate to 115200. This project is setup
to use picocom, just invoke the monitor target with make monitor.