Internet of Things (IoT) Setup your environment for Tessel

How-To Details

Here you will prepare your development environment on a laptop to work with a Tessel Generation 1 devices (see https://github.com/tessel/t1-docs).

1. Install the following tools:
   • Node.js v. 0.12
     • Node.js Latest LTS Version v. 6 has recently been tried on Windows and MacOS and worked well with the Tessel1. But did not work with some Linux versions
   • Google Chrome
   • Postman (REST Client) as Chrome extension or the app. You can use as well some other REST API Client of your choice.
   • Install good HTML/JavaScript editor. If you don’t have one, simply search on the web for something appropriate like Notepad++, Sublime Text, etc…

Optional - Additional Configuration Steps for the SAP Cloud Platform

1. Sign up for your free developer account at SAP Cloud Platform trial
2. Install a current version of Eclipse Java EE
3. Install the SAP Cloud Platform plugins to our Eclipse version from the SAP website follow the instructions on the site for the Cloud SDK as well.
   • Update your Eclipse to ensure both Git and Maven plugins are in place.
   • Configure Server Runtimes (linking to SDK downloads)

Optional - Additional Configuration Steps for the SAP HANA on premise

1. Sign up for your free developer edition of SAP HANA in the cloud via AWS or Azure

Next Steps

• Setup Your Tessel