Install a Poppy board

Warning: this chapter is only for people who want to create from scratch a Raspberry Pi system image. It is strongly advised to simply flash a ready-to-go system image on your robot.

Keep in mind that our install scripts are not written for end users: it is not well maintained and there is almost no error messages. If you encounter issues with these scripts, you can post a message in the support section of the forums.

For a Poppy Ergo Jr / Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi SD cards are pre-writed with n00b OS, you need to install Raspbian OS first.

Download the image of your system:

• Raspbian Jessie

Write the image to the SD-card with you favorite disk writer tool as explained in the startup section.

Add an empty file name ".ssh" in the boot partition to activate SSH.

Login to the board in SSH: ssh pi@raspberrypi.local, password=raspberry.

Note: If you are using Windows, you have no native SSH client. You have to download and install putty or mobaxterm to use SSH.

You will need to make sure that you have enough free space in your raspberry. The easiest way is to use the raspi-config script to expand your partition to the full SD-card. Just log into your raspberry and run (you will need to reboot it afterwards):

sudo raspi-config

Be sure that your board is connected to the Internet, and use "raspoppy" installer:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poppy-project/raspoppy/master/raspoppyfication.sh | bash -s "poppy-ergo-jr"

Change poppy-ergo-jr in the command above by your desired Poppy creature you want to install on your Raspberry Pi.

Reboot after the end of the installation. The hostname, default user and password will be all set to "poppy" (ssh poppy@poppy.local password=poppy). You can test your installation with the web interface in your web browser http://poppy.local.

Install a Poppy Torso / Humanoid on a Odroid U3 or Odroid XU4 (deprecated)

These boards are now deprecated. They come with a working Ubuntu base image on the MMC you can use the install scripts on it. In the case you have not a fresh installation you have download and burn default system images:

• Ubuntu 14.04 for Odroid U3
• Ubuntu 14.04 for Odroid XU3/XU4

To burn it on the MMC/SD-card, look at the startup section.

Now you have a clean and fresh installation, you can mount your memory card to your board, plug your ethernet connection, and power up.

Login to the board in SSH: ssh odroid@odroid.local, password=odroid.

If you are using Windows, you have no native SSH client ; you have to download and install putty or mobaxterm to use SSH.

Be sure that your board is connected to the Internet, download and run poppy_setup.sh (replace 'poppy-humanoid' below with poppy-torso' if you want to install a Poppy Torso robot):

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poppy-project/odroid-poppysetup/master/poppy_setup.sh -O poppy_setup.sh
sudo bash poppy_setup.sh poppy-humanoid

You should lose your ssh connection because of the board reboot. This reboot is needed to proceed to the finalisation of the partition resizing. Now your board should install all the poppy environment. Please do not unpower the board or shut-it down.

You can see the installation process by reconnecting you to your board with your new poppy account: ssh poppy@poppy.local password=poppy. Because of the compilation of heavy Python packages (Scipy, Numpy) it can take more than 1 hour to complete.

A process will automatically take you terminal and print the installation output. You can leave it with ctrl+c. You can get back this print by reading the install_log file:

tail -f install_log

Be patient...

At the end of the installation, your board will reboot again. You can look at the log tail -f install_log, if everything ended well, last lines should be:

System install complete!
Please share your experiences with the community : https://forum.poppy-project.org/

If you are not sure of what going up, you can see if the install process is running with: ps up $(pgrep -f 'poppy_launcher.sh')

The hostname, default user and password will be all set to "poppy" (ssh poppy@poppy.local password=poppy). You can test your installation with the web interface in your web browser http://poppy.local.