Arduino Programming

t1mm

I've noticed some people programming Arduinos in the computer huts outside the hamilton, presumably as part of their course. What courses in TCD cover such material?

Cheers!

timmywex

t1mm wrote: »

I've noticed some people programming Arduinos in the computer huts outside the hamilton, presumably as part of their course. What courses in TCD cover such material?

Cheers!

Hey, it's second year engineers! Including myself, we've a buggy project 2e10 that involves programming an arduino to communicate between a picaxe and x bee module!

It's all over with now though thankfully enough :P

Nice observation by the way!

t1mm

Ah, sounds quite interesting - what was the functionality of the finished product like? Does the college supply the arduinos / xbee modules? Was looking at the xbee modules, might be cool to play around with one before buying one!

timmywex

We basically had a track that was a black line on white surface with a number of gantries spreaded around it, the picaxe would make the buggy follow the black line.

When it came under a gantry, it was sensed through pin2 on the arduino, which measured the wavelength the gantry was sending out. The arduino then sent the gantry number and buggy number to the xbee which sent it to another xbee connected to the computer, the computer then sent an instruction back based on the direction it is supposed to go...

The arduino takes this in and sends it on to the picaxe which deals with it accordingly...

Xbee control program was programmed with C#, its pretty easy to do it and set it up to have communcations between multiple computers or whatever..

And yeh, all te buggies had the arduino on them already and there were loads of xbee's given to us...the course co-ordinator is Ciaran McGoldrick for the computer science side of things (Ciaran.McGoldrick@scss.tcd.ie)

Any other questions, just post them back up here i guess!

Jonathan

t1mm wrote: »

Was looking at the xbee modules, might be cool to play around with one before buying one!

Have you got an Arduino already?

t1mm

Ah, interesting stuff - thanks for the reply timmywex. Sounds like a cool module.

Hi Jonathan, yeah I've got an Arduino Duemilanove, bought it last year but only put together some relatively simple projects so far. I've always had an interest in wireless communication with the computer though, hence the interest in the xbee modules!