SmartLamp

Arduino Smart Lamp project

Environment setup for Ubuntu 12.04

• Download Arduino 1.6.7 IDE
• Download Fritzing
• Add followiing lines to ~/.bashrc:

ARDUINO_HOME=~/Downloads/arduino-1.6.7
ARDUINO_WORKSPACE=~/Arduino
FRITZING_HOME=~/Downloads/fritzing-0.9.2b
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.7.0_75
REPO=~/SmartLamp

export PATH=$PATH:/home/piotrek/Downloads/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools:$ARDUINO_HOME:$FRITZING_HOME
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin

enableUSB()
{
    USER=`whoami`
    sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER 
    sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyACM0 || sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyACM1
}

alias enableusb='enableUSB'
alias arduino='$ARDUINO_HOME/arduino'
alias fritzing='$FRITZING_HOME/Fritzing'

Arduino IDE

• Running Arduino:

$ arduino

• Running Fritzing:

$ fritzing

• Arduino workspace

~/Arduino
    +-libraries
    +-sketches

Sublime-Stino alternative IDE

• Download Sublime-Text 3
• Install Stino
• Select Arduino Application Folder: $ARDUINO_HOME
• Change Sketchbook Folder to $REPO folder
• Make links from modules libraries dir to $ARDUINO_WORKSPACE/libraries
• Restart sublime

Troubleshooting

• Arduino IDE shows:

avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "/dev/ttyACM0": 
Device or resource busy ioctl("TIOCMGET"): Inappropriate ioctl for device

Solution:

$ enableusb

Stable code releases

Links

1. Arduino home page
2. Arduino tutorials
3. Fritzing home page
4. Arduino tutorial - nettigo
5. Arduino tutorial - forbot
6. Arduino projects