Quick start
Ok, I have installed plasduino on my favourite platform. Now what do I do with it?
Well, there's a few modules that allow you to do something even with no additional hardware (most notably Dice and Video Click). But that's really not what plasduino is being developed for.
So, now you need an arduino board (we use uno for development, but it should be trivial to port the code to other boards). You'll also need some kind of sensors. At this point you might want to take a look at our sketches, but even with a bare arduino and an optical gate or a thermistor it shouldn't be too hard to put together the setup for the Pendulum or the Temperature Monitor modules). And, of course, take a look at the other modules too to get an idea of what plasduino has to offer.
Running plasduino
The easiest way to run plasduino is through the main launcher shown above,
which you should be able to fire up by invoking
At this point you have a list of all the available modules, with a short explanation next to it (and you can add/remove your own custom modules with the "Add..." and "Remove..." buttons). Select one of them, open it and there it is: you're up and running.
The data acquisition main windows look pretty much all similar to each other (with a few noticeable counter-examples that it won't take you long to figure out). Most of them have a transport bar; surprisingly enough, press play to start and stop to end the data acquisition. And most of them, at the end of the run, produce output files for you to analyze.
Have fun!