I was always wondering if I could ever get chance to write programs for a specific board/platform Something that I can use which has all kind of interface to sense physical world ….. And I found arduino This little board is fun to play with , check it out!
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 am
Wow! looks like a lot of fun man. I always had a wish to play with such boards.
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:18 am
Well the board is specifically made for those who want to do some rapid prototyping. The hardware and software interfaces are very easy to learn and execute. And arduino works with Flash too. So depending on any hardware interventions we can get output in Flash and play around and vice versa.
Also check out the language Processing. It’s based on Java made for young programmers. The constructs are same as in other languages but are easy to understand.
Tushar remember our robot project. Hope we had arduino at that time, we could have done marvel. And by the way this small board costs you around 2500 Rs. so that’s not expensive too.
At IIT we had done many small prototypings and experiments using arduino. Will put it up some time.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Wow so you have played around with it already. Tell me something about flash though. There will be a driver that will give HW events to flash. But can action script use it? I guess not, unless there is an extension in action script.
Ah! found it. It’s through socket. That’s cool. But will it work just with socket that can get/send binary data?
August 5th, 2008 at 5:39 am
yes it’ll work with socket.
But you need to have a socket server gateway listening to the messages.
You can download an example of it from arduino website.
August 6th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Yes the server is needed for flash to talk. But then arduino itself provides that server that sends all the controls to a socket client, I think. We did something very similar in a project. There we had a C++ application talking to hardware and giving feedback to flash via socket.