Arduino ruby gem

This gem is a prototyping API for Arduino in Ruby. Helps prototype Arduino programs quickly from the computer, without the need to burn to the board frequently.

Setup:

1. Install the gem: gem install arduino
2. Load arduino.pde onto your Arduino dev board (just once and for all).
3. Import the arduino gem: require "arduino"

Methods

Initializing:

#Arduino.new(port, baudrate)
board = Arduino.new("/dev/ttyUSB1")

Port is something like "/dev/ttyUSB0" on linux and COMx (COM1/COM2) on windows. Baudrate is optional. It is 115200 by default.

Setting output pins

The output pins must be set explicitly.

#Arduino.output(list_of_output_pins)
board.output(10,11,13)

You don't need to declare input pins since digital pins are input by default according to the page on the Arduino site - http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/DigitalPins

Digital I/O

1. Arduino.setHigh(pin)
2. Arduino.setLow(pin)
3. Arduino.getState(pin) - returns true if pin state is high, else it returns false

Analog I/O

1. Arduino.analogRead(pin) - returns the analog value
2. Arduino.analogRead(pin, value) - sets the analog value

Misc

1.) Arduino.turnOff - sets all the pins to low state

2.) Arduino.close - closes serial connection. Using this makes sure that you won't have to disconnect & reconnect the Arduino again to recover the serial port.

Usage example

	# This is the blink program.

	require "arduino"

	#specify the port Baudrate is optional and set to 115200 by default
	board = Arduino.new("/dev/ttyUSB1")

	#declare output pins
	board.output(13)

	#perform operations
	10.times do
		board.setHigh(13)
		sleep(1)
		board.setLow(13)
		sleep(1)
	end

Developed for the love of creating stuff by

© 2010 Akash Manohar [email protected] under the MIT License

Credits

Thanks to the following people:

• @unsymbol - for fixing the Ubuntu reset problem