Using solenoid valves with Arduino

I’ve recently made an installation for the first year grad exhibition at the DMA department. It involves the use a solenoid valve controlled from the Arduino board. Here you can find all the information about the piece, including the technical details of the circuit driving the valve.

Arduino on Mandriva 2008

I was able to run Arduino 010 on Mandriva Linux 2008. Basically, I had to install these the avr rpms from Fedora 8:

avr-binutils-2.17-4.fc8.i386.rpm
avr-gcc-4.1.2-5.fc8.i386.rpm
avr-gcc-c++-4.1.2-5.fc8.i386.rpm
avr-gdb-6.6-5.fc8.i386.rpm
avr-libc-1.4.6-4.fc8.noarch.rpm
avr-libc-docs-1.4.6-4.fc8.noarch.rpm