Oh wow, this looks like a really interesting intersection of the blockchain and real life. Please do keep us updated.
I'm running a bunch of *nix software under the WSL Bash shell, I'll try to make some time to see how your code plays with that environment.
I didn't know the existence of the WSL bash shell. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, and please keep me updated. This may give an alternative to our windows users. I always have 2-3 students running on windows when I am lecturing this at international schools... ;)
I'm hoping to give an install a try later this week, I'll report back.
We always have a few students running Macs, which screws us up since a lot of the software we use in the courses is Win based. Our uni has a virtual computing lab and they've really been helpful for this problem. We spend a little time creating an os image with the software fully installed, and students can remote in to a virtual machine. It completely eliminates our old problems of spending 90% of the demo time getting people up and running.
Ahah! Linux should actually be used.... it is free software. All the codes involved in this project runs nicely on linux (and therefore on mac os) :)