Flutter Call for Developers - C/C++ edition

taylor 2015-02-20 23:23:50 UTC #1

Hey folks!
We're looking for C and C++ developers who want to help work on Flutter's code before we hit full production and delivery. We have 30-40 boards to give out to any backers who want to expand the code base in exchange for early hardware. If you want to help, please fill out this survey, and discuss how you might help here.

We need help with:
Core Flutter library for Arduino. Wireless protocol, communications, power consumption, cryptography, etc.
Flutter Arduino port - take the changes we made to the 1.5.6 IDE and move them to the latest rev, swapping commented out code for #ifdef's so the DUE still works with the code. Then push these changes to the main branch.
Some godly person to help write the USB device code for Flutter, since the DUE has different USB hardware and the existing code doesn't apply to Flutter's chip.
Compile a simple C++ program for Windows and Mac.

zamadatix 2015-02-22 17:06:36 UTC #2

Submitted - cool project, definitely worth the time.

jet_flyer 2015-03-04 06:36:51 UTC #3

Wish I had enough C++ experience to help lol

taylor 2015-03-05 05:55:28 UTC #4

Went through everyone's surveys this week and sorted out who I want on what tasks. I should be sending e-mails out tomorrow confirming addresses before shipping out the first 40 boards to devs! If you responded you get the board, except the guy who failed to include contact info. I get no information on who that could have been...

SO MANY talented people responded. You guys rock. I am so glad this product is open source so smart people want to help.

taylor 2015-03-13 19:54:38 UTC #5

Sent out 22 packages to devs yesterday, with a few more to send out early next week. This is getting exciting! I will be e-mailing devs later today to let them know about their shipments.
The poor mailman...
https://twitter.com/FlutterWireless/status/576185364164935680/photo/1

systech 2015-03-15 04:52:35 UTC #6

Looking forward to it. Question:

I might be missing it but is the code thus far up on a hub?

Also was expecting to see discussion areas by groups? Am I just in the wrong place?

systech 2015-03-16 20:42:36 UTC #7

Flutter in hand... now what!?

taylor 2015-03-16 20:52:46 UTC #8

Haha, the mail is beating me to the punch. I am posting the code today, just needed to fully understand licensing and I was scrambling last week to handle some other things. Looks like we will do "LGPL V2.1 or later" with a dual license provision (allowing for closed source forks for large customers who pay to support the Flutter project). I will write more on the dual license thing later, but basically this allows large customers to either donate code or money to the project, depending on their needs. In my view this is best for the project.

taylor 2015-03-17 01:50:52 UTC #9

Everything is up now!

systech 2015-03-18 16:00:15 UTC #10

Taylor, got everything. I can build IDE using ant, all good. Tried to run your setup.sh script got error at end:

Installing Flutter
cp: cannot stat '/home/mrh/flutter/flutterarduino/Flutter' no such file or directory

build fails. Looking at the cloned repository there is no "Flutter" folder. In the setup.sh looks like the offending command is:

sudo -u $user cp -r $SCRIPT_DIR/Flutter $librariesFolder/

$SCRIPT_DIR is where setup.sh is but there is no Flutter dir beneath that. What folder are you trying to copy from? My clone has app, build, core, hardware, libraries.

taylor 2015-03-18 19:43:01 UTC #11

Yeah, that script was written for a slightly different arrangement, where the Arduino IDE and the Flutter library were in folders next to the setup script. Now that we have them broken out into different repositories, the copy functions aren't really needed. Mostly the script is great for installing the right dependencies and removing modemmanager. I didn't write the script, a friend did, so I've asked him to look at it when he has time.