Version 2 of GSoC Idea: Tcl Binding to Firmata

Updated 2013-02-22 18:34:52 by AK

Tcl Binding to Firmata

Areas (De)serialization, RPC, Remote control
Good if student knows Tcl, C
Priority Medium to Low
Difficulty Medium to Low
Benefits to the student
Benefits to Tcl Extend Tcl's glueing reach to hardware in general, the Arduino ecosystem in particular
Mentor ?
Related Project Ideas Possibly GSoC Idea: Common (De)Serialization Infrastructure

Project Description

Quoting the Firmata website:

... is a generic protocol for communicating with microcontrollers from software on a host computer.
It is intended to work with any host computer software package. Right now there is a matching object
in a number of languages. It is easy to add objects for other software to use this protocol.
Basically, this firmware establishes a protocol for talking to the Arduino from the host software.
The aim is to allow people to completely control the Arduino from software on the host computer.

The objective of this project is to create a Tcl binding to the protocol and library, so that Arduino can be controlled from Tcl scripts.

For inspiration, bindings for other languages (Python, Perl, ...) can be found at http://firmata.org/wiki/Download

Note: Given Tcl's builtin binary command it might be possible to write the binding purely in Tcl, although a C implementation is likely faster.

As there is likely some data (de)serialization component inside of the protocol it might be useful to coordinate with any student working on GSoC Idea: Common (De)Serialization Infrastructure and related projects.

Requirements:

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