Processing with Eclipse – Arduino soon?

There is now a plugin for eclipse for the visual project ‘Processing’.

For those who don’t know, Processing is what arduino coding is based on and any changes for Processing are often reflected in the Arduino environment.

Processing has now gained a plugin for the program Eclipse. Perhaps a plugin for Arduino could be forthcoming.

http://benfry.com/writing/archives/738

Printable Arduino Reference.

[vegetable_robot] wanted a printable version of the arduino reference and couldn’t find one so not giving up he made his own.

This is just a copy from the arduino reference pages but it does include page numbers for easy searching.

It is 94 pages long though. Not sure I’d want to be carrying that around with me.

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1286111686/

He has included an open office .odt file so you can edit it yourself.

Maybe you could print it double sided on 2 pages per sheet. That’d be more manageable.

Arduino 0021 is now available!

Deja-Vu anyone?

6 days since 0020 or is it 7?

Anyway the latest version of the arduino IDE is now 0021 which fixes the PWM bug on the arduino uno boards. If you didn’t know about this then don’t worry about it.

I don’t think anything else has changed so…

Here is it at the usual place.

New Arduino Logo

Well I thought it was unusual that the new arduino logo had not appeared on any of the websites announcing the new boards or development so I went to look for it.

You can’t simply save it from the arduino.cc site, they have hidden it a bit.

Anyway here it is:

(http://arduino.cc/en/pub/skins/arduinoUno/img/logo.png)

I’m sure a number of other people had found it too if they were looking but hey.

Not sure if there’s a larger version anywhere but that’s what I found.

Arduino O-Scope

This is a nice piece of software by [xchip] allowing you to use your arduino as an oscilloscope.

Called XOscillo it has a number of nice features:

• Panoramic view
• Load and save waveforms
• Zoom in and out
• Can open several waveforms at the same time
• Can run several oscilloscopes simultaneously
• frequency analysis using FFT
• Works on Windows and Linux (needs mono)
• Autodetects the hardware
• Platform independent oscilloscope
  • Arduino
    • Max freq 7 KHz, enough for a hobbyists
    • up to 4 channels (at a lower sample rate 7/4 KHz )
    • 8bit vertical resolution
    • Variable Trigger voltage on Channel 1
    • Can sample data for as long as you need
  • Parallax
    • Supports everything but fast mode.

XOscillo via the Arduino Forum

Arduino 0020

Arduino 0020 is now available from the usual place

No linux version yet but that will no doubt be here soon.

The new arduino boards with the ATmega8U2 have their own USB PIDs hardcoded in and the VID hardcoded as “Arduino”.

All boards with the FTDI chip are still supported the same as they used to be.

It should be easy enough to modify a bit of code to support any new arduino compatible boards with with the new chip and a VID (&PID).

It has been mentioned in the forums that quite a few people would like a VID for arduino compatible boards. This costs roughly £2000 but for a community such as this, it should not be too tricky to come by. More news on this as/if it happens.

When installing 0020 in windows you will get an unsigned driver message (for the USB drivers) but this is nothing to worry about. When using mac (and linux) there should be no such messages.

More CPUs!

http://www.arduino-avr.com/ has a large list of Atmel chips that have been tested with the Arduino IDE.

Information on the cores is also available.

Tiny Arduino Core!

[Coding Badly] has released his ATtiny84 core for arduino.

http://code.google.com/p/arduino-tiny/

Features:

• Support for all 10 digital pins
• Support for all 4 PWM pins
• The three analogReference modes work
• NewSoftSerial works
• Burn Bootloader can be used to change fuse settings

Limitations…

• Serial is an empty stub.  A Sketch that references Serial compiles but method calls do nothing but return.

Caveats…

• tone may not generate the correct frequency.  We need a few more people to test.

Via the Arduino Forum

Emulare Major Update (V1.7)

If you haven’t seen it already, emulare is a very cool arduino emulator.

What originally started as a simple interface to run code has now turned into a brilliant Virtual Breadboard type program specifically for arduino.

I detest Virtual Breadboard, I found it very tricky to get the hang of but emulare is much simpler to use.

The update basically adds a complete user interface and circuit diagram so you can add components to simulate what they will do. This will be great for new users waiting for an arduino to arrive or those of us who are on the go and want to be able to test code without connecting an arduino up to the laptop.

Available from the emulare website: emulare.org

Arduino 0019 Released

Arduino 0019 has now been released

Doesn’t seem to be many changes and I think a number of people will probably be annoyed that fact while waiting for 1.0

Main changes include:

• SPI library.
• The Ethernet library has been refactored to use the new SPI library. Existing sketches will need: #include <SPI.h> added to the top of their code. Just select SPI from the Sketch > Import Library menu.
• String class
• A0, A1, etc. aliases for the analog input pins
• shiftIn() function
• Added Arduino Pro 5V and Arduino Fio to the boards menu
• Added control over automatic scrolling and outgoing line endings in the serial monitor

You can download it here