Androino project explained (spanish)

The whole project explained in 20 minutes.

 

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Tic-tac-toe demonstration video

The Tic-tac-toe hardware prototype is ready. See the video.

Androino Terminal Beta 1.0 Release

Finally the project reached the beta stage. We have implemented a simple terminal application that communicates an android phone with an arduino board using the audio channel. The current implementation allows sending and receiving integers (between 1 and 31).

The source code and the developer documentation is available at the Google code Androino project http://code.google.com/p/androino/

The wiki page contains the instructions to run the app and the source code (both android and arduino)  is available for download here.

Time to report

Once the project is finish, is time to collect all the information.

One importat part of the report is to explain how the code works. Is important to define all the classes and all the information flow between them, the most clearly way to describe this is using sequence diagrams.

The reason I'm writting this post is because I found an interesting Java program which creates this sequence diagram from your source code.

This program is eUML2,


eUML2 for Java is a powerful UML modeler designed for Java developer in Eclipse. The main features are:

• Real-time code/model synchronization
• Advanced reversed engineering
• Powerful true dependency analyze tools
• JDK 1.4 and 1.5 support
• Customizable template support. 

These tools are designed specially for developers to put UML in action at the development level: ensure the software quality and reduce the development time.

Website: http://www.soyatec.com/euml2/

Bidirectional communication implemented

The prototype implementation is completed. The system can communicate android with arduino in both directions. This poor quality video show the prototype sending and receiving a message.

Source code will be published soon.

Androino is already Playing!!!

 

Next Step: Link Android & TicTacToe using Jack modem for Android

Finally it worked!

Finally I could establish Serial Communication using audio between Arduino and an Android device.  This can be done thanks to the FSK modulation, when the data '0 'is a low frequency carrier, when the data '1' will send a high-frequency carrier.


The communication is biderectional, it can go from the Arduino to the Android device and vice versa. When you start the application, it is ready to be sent and received in ASCII mode. The data received is stored in a buffer and then will appear on the screen, there is no real-time display.
After stablishing the communication in both ways, I decided to obtain real data from real world, so I decided to measure the temperature of my workroom.
I connected a thermistor to one of the Analog input pin in the arduino and using the data it obtains I am able to read them in my Andorid device through the audio port. The speed of communication I get is around 315 bps, it is not to much, but for the moment it is enough for the data I'm testing. In a future I will try to increase the amount of data I can send.