Program the Arduberry using Arduino IDE

To program the Arduberry using the Arduino IDE, do the following:

Step1: Open the Arduino IDE

 Step 2: Open the Example Arduino Sketch

Open an example or an Arduino sketch that you want to upload.

 Step 3: Set the Programmer

Make sure that the programmer is set to Raspberry Pi GPIO and the board is set as Arduino Uno.

Step 4: Upload

Click Upload. If Upload does not work use Upload using Programmer (Ctrl+Shift+U) to upload the sketch to the Arduberry

Access the Serial Port using minicom

The default Serial port monitor that is installed with the configuration script is minicom. To use minicom follow the steps:

Step 1: (Default config)

Minicom is configured to a default baud rate of 9600.  To open minicom at 9600 baud, enter the following in terminal:

sudo minicom -b 9600 -D /dev/ttyAMA0

 Step 2: (Other baud rates)

If you want to use minicom in any other baud rate than 9600, open minicom in terminal with the following command:

sudo minicom -s

Select the “Serial Port Setup“:

Press “A” to change the device to “ttyAMA0“, “E” to change the baud rate, “F” and “G” to change the flow control. Press Enter to go back to the main menu.

Select Exit to start minicom in the new configuration.

Minicom running at 115200 baud

Access the Serial data from Python

To access the Serial data coming from Arduberry in Python, install pyserial.  Note: if you used our setup script to get started here, you have already installed pyserial.

sudo pip install pyserial

Write a small program in python to access the Serial data

import serial
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyAMA0', 115200)
while True:
         print ser.readline()

Save it and run it.

Adding a New Arduino Library

Download the new library in Raspberry Pi using the Netsurf browser.

Save the library to /usr/share/arduino/libraries/

Open /usr/share/arduino/libraries/ in the File Manager.

Extract the library in the same directory.

Now the new library can be used in the Arduino IDE