For English only readers, with focus of those of the “Brick Firmware” project: Much of the resources are here in German language. Feel free to use iTools "Google Translate Web" to translate linked German articles, by naming the website address ( URL ).
“The Brick Daemon is a daemon (or service on Windows) that acts as a bridge between the Bricks/Bricklets and the API bindings for the different programming languages”.
This installation procedure works for me: Execute “python setup.py install” as shell command, from the “source” directory.
The suggested installation procedure “easy_install tinkerforge.egg” did not work for me , though it executes and finishes without any error message. It just copies the “tinkerforge.egg” file to the Python “lib” directory, which is not sufficient.
“The Brick Viewer provides a graphical interface for testing Bricks and Bricklets. Each device has its own view that shows the main features and allows to control them”.
David Eickhoff "NetIO APP" - “Tinkerforge uses a binary TCP/IP protocol for the communication between the external program and the hardware”.
ELV Journal "TinkerForge – modularer Digitalbaukasten" - “Die Tinkerforge API bietet intuitive Funktionen, die die Programmierung vereinfachen. So kann zum Beispiel mittels setVelocity() die Geschwindigkeit eines Motors in Meter pro Sekunde (m/s) eingestellt und mittels getTemperature() die Temperatur in Grad Celsius (°C) ausgelesen werden”.
Raspberry Pi Lab "Tinkerforge" - “The weather station project covered in detail in Raspberry Pi for Beginners uses the USB-based sensors provided by Tinkerforge”.