Intro to Firmata

Introduction to Arduino Firmata

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1. Intro to Firmata Brian Lu
2. What is it? • “Firmata is a generic protocol for communicating with microcontrollers from software on a host computer.”
3. Firmata
4. Two ways of using Firmata on Arduino • write your own code for Arduino using Firmata Arduino library • upload StandardFirmata in Arduino example, make Arduino an extension of your host computer
5. Why? • write and run you program without having to upload code to arduino again and again • don’t have to worry about running out of memory space • use programming language of your choice! • procesing, python, perl, ruby, clojure, javascript,
 java, .NET, Flash/AS3, PHP, Haskell • let the host computer do the hard work • portability
6. Limitations • not good at timing sensitive application • need host computer connected at all time
7. References • http://arduino.cc/en/reference/firmata • http://firmata.org/wiki/Main_Page