1. Controlling the real world
from Android
Alexandru IOVANOVICI
19-01-2013
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3. Quick outline
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What is Arduino ?
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What is Amarino ?
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How to talk to an Arduino device from Android ?
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A few words about Google IOIO;
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Demo moment …with Beta by Robofun
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Q&A

4. Where not otherwise stated all the images and diagrams are taken from Bonifaz Kaufmann's thesis on Amarino

5. What is Arduino ?

6. A few projects with...
Arduino

7. Arduino +'s
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Multiplatfrom IDE;
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Quite cheap;
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Simple UI on the IDE; easy to learn … but can be integrated
also in VS or Eclipse for a “real” IDE;
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USB programming interface … real COM is dead;
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board layout, bootloader and IDE are Open Source;
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Large and active community;
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Started as educational project → easy to learn for the
novices;

8. What is Amarino ?

9. Platform considerations for Amarino

10. Design decisions of Amarino
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Amarino shall be able to run as a background task →
unobtrusive
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Interfaces for third-party applications shall be provided →
extensible
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Comprehensive monitoring shall be available →
transparent
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Parallel communication to multiple devices shall be
possible →
powerful
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Bluetooth related code shall be decoupled →
portable

11. Architecture of Amarino

12. How it looks like ?

13. Amarino – Event Manager

14. Amarino – Event Bundle via plugins

15. Ambient Light Demo App.

16. CallMyShirt Demo App.

17. Workout Demo App.

18. Amarino – API
1 private static final String DEVICE_ADDRESS = "00:06:66:03:73:7B";
2
3 @Override
4 protected void onStart() {
5 super.onStart();
6
7 Amarino.connect(this, DEVICE_ADDRESS);
8 }
9
10 @Override
11 protected void onStop() {
12 super.onStop();
14 // if you connect in onStart() you must not forget to disconnect in
onStop()
15 Amarino.disconnect(this, DEVICE_ADDRESS);
16 }
1 final char flag = 'a';
2 final String message = "Amarino rocks!";
3
4 Amarino.sendDataToArduino(this, DEVICE_ADDRESS, flag, message);

19. Amarino – Documentation
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Online tutorials
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Code Examples
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Javadoc www.amarino-toolkit.net
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Source Code
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Discussion forum

20. 
Android 1.5 and later;
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USB host and Bluetooth;
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Java API – no embedded;
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No HW||SW mods on Android;
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Open Accesory (>=2.3.4)→
Accesory Developement Kit
(ADK)
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48 I/O pins, 9PWM, 3 TWI,
© sparkfun.com
5V@1.5A power supply;
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Open Source … everything

21. Demo moment