Montana: Granite Software resources installed

In order to develop the Montana Granite Litems, a set of software resources are needed. Specifically, for developing the source code for the Arduino Nano 33 IoT, this software has been installed:

1. Arduino IDE for Mac in its latest version (1.8.13)
2. Support for Arduino SAMD Boards (32-bits ARM Cortex-M0+) in its latest version (1.8.11)
3. ArduinoBLE library in its latest version (1.1.2)

Since, from a Bluetooth BLE perspective, the Litem is being supporting the role of GATT server, a GATT client is necessary to exchange data. In real world that client will be the Montana Yellowstone gateway, but in order to decouple litem and gateway developments a basic GATT client will be developed in the  Montana Granite project with the purpose of validating results.

The Granite GATT client will be developed in C# running on .NET Core Framework. For that purpose a VirtualBox Linux host with Ubuntu 20.04 Minimal Desktop distro has been deployed, and this software has been installed:

1. packages-microsoft-prod.deb package, that adds Microsoft software repositories as packages sources
2. dotnet-sdk-5.0 package
3. Visual Studio Code for Linux in its latest version (1.52.1) via snap (sudo snap install --classic code)
4. C# Visual Studio Code extension
5. git package
6. nuget package

BlueZ, the Linux Bluetooth protocol stack, was included in the Ubuntu distro.

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Montana projects started

A new branch in the project repository addressed to develop two new subprojects has been created. The new subprojects are:

• Litem (Mount) Granite project, addressed to develop a set of Litems based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices, specifically on Arduino Nano 33 devices. The code is located in the subdirectory SteamProject/software/litems/ble/arduino-nano33/granite of the GitHub repository (direct access clicking here).
• Gateway Yellowstone (river) project, addressed to develop a gateway developed on .NET Core using BLE as communication channel. The code is located in the subdirectory SteamProject/software/gateways/dotnet/yellowstone/ of the GitHub repository (direct access clicking here). Yellowstone project is intended to be developed in C#.

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