**Tcl Binding to Firmata**

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&|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 [http://firmata.org/%|%Firmata] website:
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... 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.
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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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