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Genious! Does anyone know if there are similar equipment for PCs? I want to hook up a laptop to some electronics equipment for data logging. Arduino boards ar

Genious! Does anyone know if there are similar equipment for PCs? I want to hook up a laptop to some electronics equipment for data logging. Arduino boards are pretty slick but they need some wrapping to work smoothly, i want to have more recommendations. For clarification, i want the I/O API to be targeted for a program running on the PC. I don't want to write a wrapper in the microcontroller myself and then transfer it over serial port to PC. I want the microcontroller block to be transparent. PC<--->Microcontroller<--->I/O

JonnieCache 16y ago
All development boards will have a USB interface which generally comes up as a serial port. You can then just fire bytes back and forth in whatever way you please. For a comparison of different boards, see: http://hackaday.com/2011/02/01/what-development-board-to-use/ http://hackaday.com/2011/02/01/what-development-board-to-use...
JonnieCache 16y ago
You can always chop the end off an old parallel cable and manipulate the state of each pin using whatever language you want on the PC. It's known as 'bit-banging' I believe. It's a simple way to do GPIO.
- sfgfdhgfdshdhhd 16y ago
  Most new laptops doesn't have parallel or serial port :(
gallamine 16y ago
1)LEGO mindstorms 2) NI DAQs (expensive) 3) BasicStamp (parallax.com) 4) BeagleBoard (then you wont need the PC) 5) Xport (lantronix - has digital IO)
- nitrogen 16y ago
  The USB Bit Whacker is also easy to use and available from SparkFun.
  - sfgfdhgfdshdhhd 15y ago
    This seems to be exactly what i'm looking for. I also find some similar firmware[1] for AVR in case you want to do the same on an arduino or other avr-based construction. Thinking about it just writing the code targeted directly for the µC isn't that complicated. Even though it's nice to have the communication firmware done for you already. 1. http://www.recursion.jp/avrcdc/cdc-io.html#usage http://www.recursion.jp/avrcdc/cdc-io.html#usage
follower 16y ago
You probably want to take a look at Firmata: http://firmata.org/wiki/Main_Page It basically does the wrapping for you, so you can control the Arduino from your PC using software you're already familiar with: Python, MaxMSP, Processing, PD etc

JonnieCache 16y ago

All development boards will have a USB interface which generally comes up as a serial port. You can then just fire bytes back and forth in whatever way you please. For a comparison of different boards, see: http://hackaday.com/2011/02/01/what-development-board-to-use/ http://hackaday.com/2011/02/01/what-development-board-to-use...

JonnieCache 16y ago

You can always chop the end off an old parallel cable and manipulate the state of each pin using whatever language you want on the PC. It's known as 'bit-banging' I believe. It's a simple way to do GPIO.

sfgfdhgfdshdhhd 16y ago
Most new laptops doesn't have parallel or serial port :(

gallamine 16y ago

1)LEGO mindstorms 2) NI DAQs (expensive) 3) BasicStamp (parallax.com) 4) BeagleBoard (then you wont need the PC) 5) Xport (lantronix - has digital IO)

nitrogen 16y ago
The USB Bit Whacker is also easy to use and available from SparkFun.
- sfgfdhgfdshdhhd 15y ago
  This seems to be exactly what i'm looking for. I also find some similar firmware[1] for AVR in case you want to do the same on an arduino or other avr-based construction. Thinking about it just writing the code targeted directly for the µC isn't that complicated. Even though it's nice to have the communication firmware done for you already. 1. http://www.recursion.jp/avrcdc/cdc-io.html#usage http://www.recursion.jp/avrcdc/cdc-io.html#usage

follower 16y ago

You probably want to take a look at Firmata: http://firmata.org/wiki/Main_Page It basically does the wrapping for you, so you can control the Arduino from your PC using software you're already familiar with: Python, MaxMSP, Processing, PD etc