Arduino Uno to IoT with an old laptop

Description: Arduino Uno to IoT without a microchip like ESP8266. By building a control panel in an apache server using arduino-mk.

Results:

This shows the animated picture from the results video where I control the Arduino Uno via an old laptop via a web page

Introduction:

I have an Arduino Uno and I want it to be online or at least send a code to it while it is not connected to my device. I remembered an old laptop in our house from 2009, so I installed a light Linux distribution for it, and my goal was to implement a project that I could connect an Arduino to and control it from another device. This is an opportunity to develop my various skills and I learned many things during its implementation from solving problems in Linux powers or communicating more than one language with each other. In this project, I share with you the journey of it in detail!

Structure

The image of project sequence

Video:

LinkedIn video

Twitter video

How to use it?

After setup, Open the IP address of the server and enjoy it with different examples.

What are the requirements?

Arduino Uno
Old laptop
OS in an old laptop is a distribution from GUN Linux, If the specs of a laptop are low can use Bodhi Linux like the project
arduino-mk, Apache server, PHP, and Python3. Soon I will be making a shell script for setup to do that.

Implementation:

Project Sequence

Programming languages used and reasons:

Shell script: for controlling Linux like running Arduino programs, deleting files, or running other programming languages.
PHP: for backend like send commands to a shell script to the server when clicking a button, and text formatting.
Python: for replacing text in CSS for lamp animation depending on color.
HTML, CSS: for design control panel and other pages.
Makefile: to compile and run Arduino examples.

Steps to setup :

Install arduino-mk

sudo apt install arduino-mk
Activate the validity of the port connected to the Arduino Uno

sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyACM0
Install apache server with php

sudo apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php
Change folder of apache server from /var/www/html to sketchbook by

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf Find user and group and put www-data

User <Your User> Group <Your Group>

After that:

sudo service apache2 restart

If the old laptop is not used directly due to its performance, you can connect to it from your personal computer using SSH, and copying through scp command As shown here:

Distribute files from the project's repository

Sketchbook in old laptop contains:

build-uno - display_output.php - lamp_Animation.html - libraries - select_color_lamp.py - styles.css codes_ino - index.php - logo.png - run_shell.sh - show_last_code.php

Temp files are:

lamp_Animation_out.html - output.txt

Traffic Light Schematics

The example of auto traffic light simulator from Project Hub - Arduino create

Website

When using Addons Responsive Viewer we notice that the design can be compatible with more screens more appropriately, in the future we can use framework tools like Bootstrap to the main website

Conclusion:

I loved this project because I used a variety of skills to make the project work and build and it will help me with the application in the Arduino Uno without any wires near my personal computer. The site works interactively without the need for external parts that I need to buy or intermediary programs and applications online and they have a cost, a beautiful project from an idea that came to my mind on the 5th of the year 2021 and I designed my imagination for it at the time and in the month of the 10th of the same year I started working on it and now I have finished the first A usable and publishable copy! I will continue to update it, God willing. A number of working hours based on time in Google Calendar and Forest: 55 hour 📆 🌲 To learn how to powers when it was not sending the command to execute the Arduino as well as continuous experimentation, problem solving and improvement. Fun and useful hours 😁💡.

Initial design on 5/2021:

Future work:

Shell script to setup
Release file of a project after version 1 finish
Bootstrap to the main website

License:

todo

My GitHub: https://github.com/MohammadYAmmar

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-y-ammar/

If you have seen the description and tool with codes, can you recommend my Arduino or Shell scripting programming skills on LinkedIn? :)

Do not forget to give the project a star ⭐🌟 to encourage us to continue if you liked it.

Please do not copy or distribute my code without permission or (mention work in GitHub with Pull Request to Contributing or question in issues section in a repository).

Thank you for reading all of this to benefit you instead of just copying and pasting ✂!

Contributing

Fork it (https://github.com/MohammadYAmmar/Arduino-Uno-to-IoT-with-old-laptop/fork)
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
Create a new Pull Request

MohammadYAmmar/Arduino-Uno-to-IoT-with-old-laptop