Arduino Pro Mini

communication from your application’s logic. Have a look at the project’s
examples to learn more about these features.
Ruby
Even dynamic languages such as Ruby give you instant access to your com-
puter’s serial port and to an Arduino connected to it. But before that, you
need to install the serialport gem:
maik> gem install serialport
Using it, you can connect to the Arduino in just 30 lines of code.
SerialProgramming/Ruby/analog_reader.rb
require 'rubygems'
Line 1
require 'serialport'
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if ARGV.size != 1
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puts "You have to pass the name of a serial port."
5
exit 1
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end
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port_name = ARGV[0]
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baud_rate = 9600
10
data_bits = 8
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stop_bits = 1
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parity = SerialPort::NONE
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arduino = SerialPort.new(
15
port_name,
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baud_rate,
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data_bits,
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stop_bits,
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parity
20
)
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sleep 2
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while true
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arduino.write "a0\n"
25
sleep 0.01
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line = arduino.gets.chomp
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puts line
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end
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We create a new SerialPort object in line 15, passing it all the usual parameters.
After we sleep for two seconds, we start a loop and call write on the SerialPort
object. To get the result back from the Arduino, we call gets , and then we print
the result to the console. Here you can see the program in action:
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