Running Demo in Jupyter Notebook - ArrowElectronics/arrow-safari GitHub Wiki

Once you have connected the hardware, downloaded the software and installed the image on the SD card you are ready to run the demonstration.

This allows you to plot the outputs of the sensors using the Jupyter Notebook application.

1. Connect Power Supply

Connect the 12V power supply to the Meerkat board. Wait approximately 15 seconds for the Meerkat to fully boot.

2. Identify COM Port

On your PC running Windows 10 open up Device Manager. Look under 'Ports' and make a note of which COM port the Meerkat is connected to. If there are multiple devices listed, you can unplug the USB cable and plug it back in to identify the right one.

3. Open the Jupyter Notebook

  1. With Jupyter Notebook running, click on 'arrow-demos' then 'arrow-safari-master' to navigate to the location of Safari_IPython.ipynb.

Notebook Select

Notebook Select

  1. Click the filename Safari_IPython.ipynb to launch the notebook.
    • The notebook should open in a new tab Notebook Select Note: If you are unable to locate the files you downloaded/cloned earlier please follow the instructions here to change the starting directory of Jupyter.

4. Run the program

Follow the instructions inside the notebook to plot the sensor data.

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