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authorTod E. Kurt <tod@todbot.com>2013-04-29 17:40:59 -0700
committerTod E. Kurt <tod@todbot.com>2013-04-29 17:40:59 -0700
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arduino-serial -- C code to talk to Arduino
===========================================
@@ -7,7 +6,8 @@ Original URL: http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/06/arduino-serial-c-code-to-talk-to
Post about changes: http://todbot.com/blog/2013/04/29/arduino-serial-updated/
-Usage is:
+Usage
+------
<pre>
laptop% ./arduino-serial
Usage: arduino-serial -b <bps> -p <serialport> [OPTIONS]
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Note: Order is important. Set '-b' baudrate before opening port'-p'.
Used to make series of actions: '-d 2000 -s hello -d 100 -r'
means 'wait 2secs, send 'hello', wait 100msec, get reply'
-d
+
</pre>
+Downloads
+---------
+For convenience, here's some pre-built versions of arduino-serial.
+They may not be updated regularly, so compile it yourself if you can.
+Click the "view raw" to get the actual zip file.
+
+- https://github.com/todbot/arduino-serial/blob/master/arduino-serial-macosx.zip
+- https://github.com/todbot/arduino-serial/blob/master/arduino-serial-linux.zip
+
+
+Compilation
+-----------
arduino-serial should compile on any POSIX-compatible system.
Tested on Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux, Raspian Linux, Beaglebone Linux
+To build, just check it out, make, and run it like:
+<pre>
+% git clone https://github.com/todbot/arduino-serial.git
+% cd arduino-serial
+% make
+% ./arduino-serial
+</pre>
+
+For more details on the build process, see the Makefile.