NOKO

The DIY-NOKO Monster, lovely and naughty, ready to build on your own. And everyone is invited to contribute. NOKO is for everyone. What's new? See the newsblog.

NOKO is a multifunctional monster with an ATmega328 microcontroller on an Arduino Nano, display, clock, radio, mp3 player, four buttons as user interface, battery, voice set and tons of gimmicks, packed in a cuddly monster suit - sturdy, lovely and sometimes a bit mean and annoying. Just the way you want him to be. He, she or it - this is your decision and only depends on the voice set. In this repository NOKO is a lad, a real bloke! A buddy for life and a companion by day and night. All he needs is a little power every now and then.

NOKO stands for NOra's and niKO's monster.

###Notes for non-German NOKO makers There are a German and an English version. Right now, the building wiki, the voice set, the manual and the optional EEPROM text files are in German. I'll try to translate the wiki and the manual when the German wiki is completed. Until then, feel free to ask me for translation, if you need help. Contribute! I need an English voice set and English text files. In addition, any other language is welcome, NOKO is to be cosmopolitan!

Prerequisites

NOKO needs Arduino IDE 1.6.6 - 1.6.11 Copy the folder NOKO/src/[language]/NOKO/ into your sketch folder. When using 1.6.11 with AVR core 1.6.12, everythin will compile out-of-the-box. With 1.6.9 of lower, NOKO.ino won't compile, the sketch size is too large.

Option 1: Install IDE 1.6.10 or 1.6.11 and relax.
Option 2: If you are using IDE 1.6.9 or lower, you need to install Optiboot onto your Nano.
Option 3: See how to compile to set compiler options - this, together with Optiboot and IDE 1.6.11 and AVR core 1.6.12, is the most efficient option. Strangely, AVR core 1.6.13 does not support compiler options... Ardunio IDE is still somehow nerdy, isn't it?
Option 4: Take one of the precompiled hex-files and follow the instructions in how to compile.

In any case, Optiboot is strongly recommended.

Content

NOKO/
├── howto_compile/
|   Hints compile the sketches in your Arduino IDE and a modified platform.txt for IDE 1.6.11
|   ├── linux-1_6_9_and_lower/
|   |   Modified platform.txt for Linux with IDE 1.6.9 and below
|   ├── precompiled/
|   |   Precompiled hex-files and windows tools
|   |   ├── Deutsch/
|   |   |   German Versions
|   |   ├── English/
|   |   |   English Versions
|   |   └── avrdude_win/
|   |       avrdude files for windows/
|   └── windows-1_6_9_and_lower/
|       Modified platform.txt for Windows with IDE 1.6.9 and below
|
├── manual/
|   NOKO manual in PDF format and a template for a packaging desin.
|   └── scribus/
|       Source documents for Scribus with all illustrations and fonts.
|
├── mp3/
|   Voiceset for NOKO in German. English needed? Contribute!
|          
├── schematics/
|   The Schematics for the NOKO parts, the NOKO sewing pattern and shopping lists.
|   └── geda/
|       Source documents for gEDA.
|
├── src/
|   Arduino sketches
|   ├── Deutsch/
|   |   German version
|   |   └── NOKO/
|   |       Main sourcecode with all the required libraries.
|   ├── English/
|   |   English version. 
|   |   └── NOKO/
|   |       Same files but translated. 
|   ├── I2C-Scanner/
|   |   Sketch to scan adresses of all connected I2C-devices.
|   ├── NOKO_Disk1/
|   |   Sketch to write the Disk1 textfile to 24LC256-EEPROMs.
|   └── NOKO_EEPROM_Disk0/
|       Sketch to write NOKO presets to the Arduino EEPROM and the Disk0 textfile to the
|       AH24C32 EEPROM.
|
└── write_EEPROM/
    Tools to write data through serial connection to the Arduino and the EEPROMs. 

###Let's get started!

Interested in NOKO? Great! Let's start here:
German wiki.
English wiki will follow. One day...