Arduino Libraries for Embedded Linux platforms

This project is dedicated to document the implementation of Arduino Libraries for Linux Userspace. It is part of two GSOC projects at Beagleboard.org.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the latest production image of the Angstrom Distribution on the Beaglebone Black here.

If you prefer working on your host machine, go on. If you would prefer using the Beaglebone in a standalone environment, skip to development on a Beaglebone Black

Development on a linux host machine

Get the Angstrom toolchain from here

  wget http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/toolchains/angstrom-2011.03-x86_64-linux-armv7a-linux-gnueabi-toolchain-qte-4.6.3.tar.bz2

Extract it to / (or any other place you prefer):

  sudo tar -C / -xjf angstrom-2011.03-x86_64-linux-armv7a-linux-gnueabi-toolchain-qte-4.6.3.tar.bz2

Set up the environment variables

  export PATH=/usr/local/angstrom/arm/bin:$PATH # or wherever you extracted the toolchain
  export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-

Get this repository

  git clone https://github.com/prpplague/Userspace-Arduino.git && cd Userspace-Arduino

Copy the Bacon-overlay to the Beaglebone Black
```
  scp overlay/BB-BONE-BACONE-00A0.dtbo root@192.168.7.2:/lib/firmware
```
The default username is root and password is blank. The above syntax will change if you have the Beaglebone connected over Ethernet instead of USB. In that case, you need to know the IP address of the Bone and change the syntax accordingly

Run an example

  cd arduino-makefile/examples/BlinkUserspace/
  make upload # will compile on the host machine and execute on the Beaglebone Black

You should see one of the 4 LEDs blinking at a steady interval

Development on a Beaglebone Black

TO DO

About

This project will be worked upon by two students, Parav and Anuj; David Anders, Matt Porter and Andrew Bradford have been assigned as the mentors.

project pages:

http://www.elinux.org/Userspace_Arduino

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/anujdeshpande92/51001

https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/hatguy/24001