MIT creates development system that links Arduino to Android phones
MIT and the University of Klangenfurt, Austria, have developed a platform capable of interconnecting, via Bluetooth smartphones and external devices created by the user. The project is based on the Arduino and is designed for phones with Android .
Created several years ago as a hardware component "chameleon" and quite inexpensive, the Arduino ( www.arduino.cc ) can be the basis for many projects Geeks: from simple robots to complete flashing lights can be mounted with the Arduino as a base. To schedule this hardware, there is a programming environment (called the Arduino IDE) so easy to use that do not need any prior technical knowledge to do so. In fact, the official website says that the paraphernalia is aimed at electronics hobbyists and artists, people who normally do not have any training program.
With that in mind, Kaufmann Bonifaz , a programmer at MIT , decided to create a programming tool to make cell phones and other mobile equipment "piloted" by Android could interact with devices external to the cell based on the Arduino. Thus was born the Amarin. As the project page , Amarin is now at MIT developed a partnership with the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
This toolkit aims to empower people so that they use the events of the device in a creative way, externalizing this information under many different methods available and even some not yet created.
With Amarin, any weirdness is created using an Arduino to have access to internal events of the phone with Android, such as activated links, messages, or light and motion sensors. Thus, for example, can make a device with a lamp and a speaker that plays La Traviata and morse code flashes whenever you get an SMS message. Or use the phone's accelerometer to turn the room light. The possibilities are endless.
According to information at the Google Code , which hosts the project, you can control multiple devices in parallel and there is support for 1.x and 2.x versions of Android, at least for the devices HTC Hero and HTC Tattoo.
Downloading the Amarin and sample code can be done via the link http://bit.ly/Amarino.
source: geek.com.br
