A project in collaboration with makerspace - Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bolzano. See also makerspace | learning by doing.
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c o m p u t e r s c i e n c e f a c u l t y
Clone this repository with git command line or Git for Windows or else you can
also download the repository as a ZIP file. Then put the project folder
somewhere on your filesystem of your PC. Launch your Arduino installation and go
to the menu bar File | Preferences. In the Settings tab click the Browse
button on the right side of Sketchbook location: and select the project
folder that you have just copied. Hit the OK button and close the Arduino IDE
without saving the empty sketch. Now after every restart of the IDE you can
launch any sketch that resides within the project folder and any included
software library within the library folder will be available for your sketches.
The sketches have been developed with the Arduino IDE 1.6.8 from the arduino.cc website. You can expect that the sketches can be executed for any future release of the IDE. Any previous release of the IDE is not guaranteed to work as it could be that specific properties or behaviours of the IDE are expected or used.
As a second option for developing software for Arduino you can use the Visual Studio plugin Visual Micro. The Visual Studio IDE can nowadays be downloaded from Mircosoft for free as a Community edition, that needs only a valid registered Microsoft account such that it works properly.
The sketches have been developed for the Arduino Uno. Any other board with an ATmega328 compatible microcontroller might also work but our mileage may vary.
The project can be used with the serial bluetooth module HC-06 or HC-05. Be beware that the module works with 3.3V signal levels and therefore on the Arduino Uno a simple voltage translator is needed for the RXD pin of the module.
The wiring is as follows:
Please make sure that the module is detached when your try to upload a sketch the Arduino Uno or else the process will fail!
You can test the bluetooth connection on an Android smartphone by installing apps like BT Simple Terminal or by creating a custom application in Android Studio by following the guides of Android-er. Further details about developing applications for Android can be found at http://developer.android.com/sdk/.