ConfigurableFirmata and johnny-five

Prelude:
Rasperry Pi is a very powerful and popular ARM board, and can be installed with Raspian (Debian 8 ) Jessie very easily with NOOBS. However the node.js version included is version 0.10.x, which is rather old, and I think the main reason is be compatible with node-red. This will cause trouble if you want to install johnny-five in it.

based on excellent tutorial on pubnub , npmjs and jwaldron github,  I list out the workflow on how to do it.

on Arduino:

install ConfigurableFirmata ( see PubNub tutorial ) is pretty straightforward

on Raspberry Pi:

install node.js from nodejs.org

  curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
  sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

 npm (node package manager ) is already installed


check version of npm:

Ubuntu and Debian

• Install Node.js >= 0.10.x

              sudo apt-get install nodejs

• Install the nodejs-legacy package

               sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy ( eg for node-red)

• Install build-essential or a suitable alternative  

       sudo apt-get install build-essential

 
Install johnny-five on raspberry pi:

referring to npmjs

git clone the source code and install:

  git clone git://github.com/rwaldron/johnny-five.git && cd johnny-five



  npm install



install johnny-five: 



  cd ..



  npm install johnny-five

try to run the blink.js ( list in PubNub):

To  be continues....