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This ought to be a work putting together most of my previous research and efforts. The hardware is made up of:
I’ve built up an online service for building an Arduino sketch into a ready-to-burn HEX file. The browser submit the sketch to server with a HTTP POST request. The sketch is then compiled and linked against Arduino core (1.0.1) and library files with AVR GCC on the server side. The built HEX file is sent back to the browser as a downloadable file.
At the moment, only standard Arduino libraries are supported. More libraries will be adpoted in future. My ultimate goal may be making a complete web-based development environment featuring code editing, compiling, personal sketch book, library management etc.
Why bother to make this utility as the Arduino IDE can do everything?
That’s why I made this utility, simple, straight-forward and trying to have a sleek look, to make myself feel better when proceeding an upload for Arduino.
After maintaining CodeBlocks Arduino Edition, which is an out-of-box distribution for Windows only, for several months, I finally got everything to work on Linux. Thanks to Ubuntu that makes life a lot easier on Linux, I have the chance to get this done in one day. I put all my addons and tweaks on CodeBlocks IDE into a single downloadable package, so it’s easy for everyone to get this done from scratch. Here is a guide showing all the steps for setting up a productive Arduino development environment with CodeBlocks on a Linux box.
Whenever you are going to write some “larger” programs on Arduino which usually has a ATmega328, ATmega168 or even ATmega8 micro-controller on board, you need to taking what’s written in the title into consideration. Especially with Atmega168 or ATmega8 which only has 512 byte SRAM, this is even more critical. I just suffered from this issue in a recent Arduino software project. The sketch used up too much SRAM and caused the board to reboot periodically. So I take sometime to find out good ways to decrease SRAM utilization. Continue reading
Just updated CodeBlocks Arduino Edition with Arduino core version 1.0.1. The most noticable improvement is a typical sketch’s built binary size is about 3~5% smaller.
Just to announce that ArduGate now runs on Linux. Ubuntu is the distribution on which I build and test the Linux port. As it is a command line version and I build the binary statically, it should run on most Linux distribution. If you still can’t, just build from the source code.
Today I implemented RGB LED matrix interfacing in ArduGate. This is a video demostrating using iPad to control RGB LED matrix on Arduino. Continue reading
With ArduGate, controlling servos (yes, not servers) attached to an Arduino, from within web browser has never been easier. The JavaScript code for doing the task is almost identical to that used in Arduino but it is JavaScript that can work with rich HTML5 features. You can imagine what this can be used for.
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