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Artoo Adaptor For Arduino

This repository contains the Artoo (http://artoo.io/) adaptor and drivers for Arduino and Arduino-compatible microcontrollers (http://arduino.cc/) using the Firmata protocol (http://firmata.org).

Artoo is a open source micro-framework for robotics using Ruby.

For more information abut Artoo, check out our repo at https://github.com/hybridgroup/artoo

Code Climate Build Status

This gem makes extensive use of the hybridgroup fork of the firmata gem (https://github.com/hybridgroup/ruby-firmata) thanks to @hardbap with code borrrowed from the arduino_firmata gem (https://github.com/shokai/arduino_firmata) thanks to @shokai

Installing

gem install artoo-arduino

Using

require 'artoo'

connection :arduino, :adaptor => :firmata, :port => '/dev/ttyACM0' #linux
device :board, :driver => :device_info
device :led, :driver => :led, :pin => 13

work do
  puts "Firmware name #{board.firmware_name}"
  puts "Firmata version #{board.version}"
  every 1.second do
    led.toggle
  end
end

Devices supported

The following hardware devices have driver support via the artoo-gpio gem:

The following hardware devices have driver support via the artoo-i2c gem:

Connecting to Arduino

OSX / Linux

The main steps are:

First plug the Arduino into your computer via the USB/serial port. A dialog box will appear telling you that a new network interface has been detected. Click "Network Preferences...", and when it opens, simply click "Apply".

Install the artoo-arduino gem:

$ gem install artoo-arduino

Install the gort program from here: ![gort]

Once plugged in, use the gort to find out your connection info and serial port address:

$ gort scan serial

Use the gort arduino install command to install avrdude, this will allow us to upload firmata to the arduino:

$ gort arduino install

Once the avrdude uploader is installed we upload the firmata protocol to the arduino, use the arduino serial port address found when you ran gort scan serial, or leave it blank to use the default address /dev/ttyACM0.

Note: On a Mac you might need to use the cu. prefixed address instead of the tty. address.

$ gort arduino upload firmata /dev/ttyACM0

Change the example to use the correct serial port address

connection :arduino, :adaptor => :firmata, :port => '/dev/ttyACM0' #linux
connection :arduino, :adaptor => :firmata, :port => '/dev/tty.usbmodem1411' #osx (might need cu. instead of tty.)

Windows

We are currently working with the Celluloid team to add Windows support. Please check back soon!

Documentation

Check out our documentation for lots of information about how to use Artoo.

IRC

Need more help? Just want to say "Hello"? Come visit us on IRC freenode #artoo

Contributing

(c) 2012-2014 The Hybrid Group