hardbap/wall_e

A Firmata based Arduino library.

Wall·E

Ruby powered robots.

Shout-outs

Wall·E would not have been possible if not for the awesome goings on in the Node community. Big props to:

• Rick Waldron creator of johnny-five
• Chris Williams creator of node-serialport
• Julian Gautier creator firmata

Prerequisites

1. Download and install the Arduio IDE for your OS
2. Download and unzip Firmata 2.2
3. Plug in your Arduino via USB
4. Open the Arduino IDE, select: File > Open > [Path from step 2] > examples > StandardFirmata
5. Click the Upload button

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'wall_e'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install wall_e

Usage

require 'wall_e'

WallE::Assembler.build do

  led = Led(3)
  rate = 0.75

  repeat do
    led.toggle
    delay rate
  end

end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request