RemoteEmbeddedLab

A set of PHP files, scripts and database to allow remote users to edit programs and hardware, upload code and access real microcontrollers and FPGAs.

Features

• Fully web based solution
• Online web editor
• Examples
• Real time access to the device LEDs, surrounds using a webcam available with motion
• Usage control with scheduling / with / without authorization
• Transparent remote code upload using avrdude or esptool from the web-browser
• Transparent remote bitstream download to the board using Xilinx tools

Tested with Arduino and Zybo boards. It would be easy to use with mBed / STM32 boards using UF2 bootloader

Dependencies

• CodeMirror (https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror)
• LuxCal (https://www.luxsoft.eu/index.php?pge=dload)
• MySQL
• Apache + PHP
• Arduino makefile (https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile)
• Arduino IDE
• Motion (for webcam) (https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion)
• AMD/Xilinx Vivado Suite
• Intel/Altera Quartus Prime Suite

Installation

1. On a Linux machine, install Apache + MySQL + PHP and Apache+PHP+MySQL modules, if you still don't have it
2. Install luxcal (https://www.luxsoft.eu/index.php?pge=dload) on /var/www/html/agenda folder (tested with luxcal 479)
3. Configure luxcal database and SMTP. Test your calendar install and if approved events are sending email
4. Install and configure motion
5. Download and copy CodeMirror (codemirror-5.58.1) to /var/www/html/codemirror-5.58.1
6. Install and configure FPGA tools

Configuration Tricks

1. The email password is set in the calendar setting using the administrator account.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Prof. Rafael Aroca for supporting the original version!

Pull resquests with examples are welcome!