Controlling the real world from Android

Alexandru IOVANOVICI19-01-2013

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Quick outlineWhat is Arduino ?

What is Amarino ?

How to talk to an Arduino device from

Android ?

A few words about Google IOIO;

Demo moment …with Beta by Robofun

Q&A

Where not otherwise stated all the images and diagrams are taken from Bonifaz Kaufmann's thesis on Amarino

What is Arduino ?

A few projects with...

Arduino

Arduino +'s

Multiplatfrom IDE;

Quite cheap;

Simple UI on the IDE; easy to learn … but can be integrated also in VS or Eclipse for a “real” IDE;

USB programming interface … real COM is dead;

board layout, bootloader and IDE are Open Source;

Large and active community;

Started as educational project → easy to learn for the novices;

What is Amarino ?

Platform considerations for Amarino

Design decisions of Amarino Amarino shall be able to run as a background task →

unobtrusive Interfaces for third-party applications shall be provided →

extensible Comprehensive monitoring shall be available →

transparent Parallel communication to multiple devices shall be possible →

powerful Bluetooth related code shall be decoupled →

portable

Architecture of Amarino

How it looks like ?

Amarino – Event Manager

Amarino – Event Bundle via plugins

Ambient Light Demo App.

CallMyShirt Demo App.

Workout Demo App.

Amarino – API1 private static final String DEVICE_ADDRESS = "00:06:66:03:73:7B";23 @Override4 protected void onStart() {5 super.onStart();67 Amarino.connect(this, DEVICE_ADDRESS);8 }910 @Override11 protected void onStop() {12 super.onStop();14 // if you connect in onStart() you must not forget to disconnect in onStop()15 Amarino.disconnect(this, DEVICE_ADDRESS);16 }

1 final char flag = 'a';2 final String message = "Amarino rocks!";34 Amarino.sendDataToArduino(this, DEVICE_ADDRESS, flag, message);

Amarino – Documentation Online tutorials Code Examples Javadoc Source Code Discussion forum

www.amarino-toolkit.net

Android 1.5 and later;

USB host and Bluetooth;Java API – no embedded;No HW||SW mods on Android;Open Accesory (>=2.3.4)→

Accesory Developement Kit

(ADK)48 I/O pins, 9PWM, 3 TWI,

5V@1.5A power supply;Open Source … everything

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Demo moment