Configuring software on Banana Pro

We will configure software under the Lubuntu operating system; you can download it from http://www.lemaker.org/product-bananapro-resource.html.

Installing dependencies

Firstly, we need to make sure that all the software on Banana Pro is of the latest version. The following command will update all the software:

sudo apt-get update

The output of the preceding command should be similar to what is shown in this screenshot:

Then, we can install all the packages we need, as follows:

sudo apt-get install git libudev-dev build-essential qt4-dev-tools

Installing the GrblController software

The GrblController is a G code sender and monitoring and homing tool for GRBL for Mac, Windows, and Linux systems, which is written using the Qt Desktop Framework in C++. We can probably also use linuxCNC to replace GrblController, but here we will use GrblController as the reference.

Firstly, we need to create a new directory as the workspace into which we will download all the packages...