Simple Arduino UNO interacting with computer

This is my frist attempt (got the UNO in the mail today!) to interface a board with hardware and have them talk multiple times at user specification (not just interacting once to burn code onto the flash memory that is run later).

I send bytes through a serial connection (USB) using a Java application, which is pretty cool. This can be extended to, say, make a java control board for your house (and then the microcontroller takes care of physically changing things), or making a mobile app that contacts a java server which also sends input to the board.

Suggestions/ideas, let me know! I'll probably be posting some more videos soon to show some more power of the UNO microcontroller!

Also if you have questions, don't be afraid to post them. This application wasn't the most straight forward - but then it wasn't terribly difficult either.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• arduino
• uno
• microcontroller
• java
• pc
• connection
• serial
• usb
• LED

[ethanfrei]

@aplfilmsTV Hey, sorry but I don't think I actually have this code any more! :\ Sorry! However I can lead you to what I used. It was called the RXTX library (google). And if I remember correctly (for windows) you need a .dll file and a .jar java library. It must link up with some system code whatever that's called. If you can use a language other than Java, C# is quite a bit easier to get this going.

[aplfilmsTV]

Could you send me your java code via email? Im having a lot of trouble getting java to read the serial port. My email is colby1996@me.com. Thanks a lot in advance