Install on MacOS Ventura with Apple Silicon

[ianfoster]

Has anyone run the demo code on a Mac with Apple silicon?

Trying conda env create -f environment.yml on a MacBook Pro, MacOS 13.1, Apple M1 Max,
I see the error shown in the attached trace.txt, which some Googling suggests may be an Apple silicon problem.

error: legacy-install-failure

× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> RPi.GPIO

[sgbaird]

Hi @ianfoster, really glad to see that you got the demo up and running, and thanks for sharing in your Twitter post! I might need to locate a New Zealand map lol 😉.

The problem is likely with one of the following two dependencies:

self-driving-lab-demo/environment.yml

Lines 43 to 44 in 50160d6

	- blinkt
	- adafruit-circuitpython-as7341

Incidentally, both are no longer needed after the switch from the Raspberry Pi 4B single board computer to the Pico W microcontroller, so I'm removing them in #165.

If there are any other dependency conflicts you run into, it might be worth also trying to run pip install -e . inside of a fresh conda environment while inside the self-driving-lab-demo directory in case one of the Anaconda packages is causing an issue. Generally, I put dependencies that are necessary for some of the notebooks (but not for the Python package) and dependencies that are useful for development in environment.yml, but I don't keep as close of a watch on it as I do with setup.cfg. I'll see about verifying the environment.yml file installs correctly via the GitHub actions tests #166.

Not sure if this is what you showed in the Twitter video, but another option for quick tests is running this tutorial notebook in Google Colab via the "Open in Colab" badge.

[ianfoster]

That works, thanks! (And I have the Google Colab running now also, via the other issue.)

[sgbaird]

For sure! Glad it's working, and thanks for your patience. I appreciate the detailed issues.