Arduino Edit, Compile, Upload, Read Serial by LInux Pocket Chip

Do you have a Pocket Chip?

Do you have an Arduino?

Do you want write, compile and upload your Arduino everywhere?

Do you are ready to read this tutorial?

If the answers are YES - YES - YES - YES... you can read below. CHIP is a single board computer. Pocket CHIP is a device with CHIP and touch screen, keyboard and battery. The operative system of CHIP is Linux. You can download all the package, and start to program Arduino.

Open the Terminal App on Pocket CHIP, and type:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install python-serial arduino arduino-mk

Create directory by typing this command in Terminal window:

mkdir ~/sketchbook

This is the directory where you can edit and create new Arduino projects.

Now you can copy the Blink code to sketchbook directory:

cd ~/sketchbook

cp -a /usr/share/doc/arduino-mk/examples/Blink .

Open the directory:

cd Blink
Show the content of directory:

ls -l

You will see this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 chip chip 509 Jul 12 2014 Blink.ino
-rw-r--r-- 1 chip chip 61 Jul 12 2014 Makefile

Open the Makefile and edit

Type:

sudo nano Makefile

Write in the file

BOARD_TAG = uno
ARDUINO_LIBS =

include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

In the terminal windows now you can compile the program by typing

make

If you want compile and upload the code into your Arduino type:

make upload

Do you want read other about this prog:

https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile

The alternatives

uno: Arduino Uno
atmega328: Arduino Duemilanove w/ ATmega328

diecimila: Arduino Diecimila or Duemilanove w/ ATmega168

nano328: Arduino Nano w/ ATmega328

nano: Arduino Nano w/ ATmega168

mega2560: Arduino Mega 2560 or Mega ADK

mega: Arduino Mega (ATmega1280)

leonardo: Arduino Leonardo

esplora: Arduino Esplora

micro: Arduino Micro

mini328: Arduino Mini w/ ATmega328

mini: Arduino Mini w/ ATmega168

ethernet: Arduino Ethernet

fio: Arduino Fio

bt328: Arduino BT w/ATmega328

bt: Arduino BT w/ATmega168

LilyPadUSB: LilyPad Arduino USB

lilypad328: LilyPad Arduino w/ ATmega328

lilypad: LilyPad Arduino w/ ATmega168

pro5v328: Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (5V, 16 MHz) w/ ATmega328

pro5v: Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (5V, 16 MHz) w/ ATmega168

pro328: Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (3.3V, 8 MHz) w/ ATmega328

pro: Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (3.3V, 8 MHz) w/ ATmega168

atmega168: Arduino NG or older w/ ATmega168

atmega8: Arduino NG or older w/ ATmega8

robotControl: Arduino Robot Control

robotMotor: Arduino Robot Motor

You can also use custom board profiles, but that’s beyond the scope of this post! Most common Arduino compatible boards match something on this list. For example, the Freetronics EtherMega operates just like an Arduino Mega with a 2560 processor, so you’d select “mega2560” as the BOARD_TAG in the Make file.

If you want read the serial message, you can install screen

Screen is a simple program that show the serial message. For installation on the Terminal type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install screen

For use Screen you must have the name of Arduino serial port, and the baud-rate. The default baudrate for Arduino UNO is 9600, for the name of serial port, you can connect Arduino, and type:

dmesg|tail

and see something like this /dev/ttyACM0 this is your serial port

Now you can read the serial messages by using:

sudo screen /dev/device baud-rate