This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
May Have Found an In-Between Code for Arduino
I had an interesting question for one of the engineers this morning. I asked him if he knew of any remote control for the Arduino in which a command could be sent to the Arduino for execution in lieu of programming the Arduino for a specific purpose. Interestingly enough, I found the Firmata project (http://firmata.org/wiki/Main_Page). This appears to be a protocol based upon the Midi control signals and is geared for micro-controllers of which the Arduino is one. There is a load for the Arduino for the protocol server, and a test program to run from a side computer. All software is available for both sides. In looking through the protocol, it looks like it might do everything that I need it to do for experimentation purposes. Obviously, I would program the Arduino to do specific tasks after I figure out what I need it to do.
