Getting Started with UDOO

Emanuele Palazzetti

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784391942
• Topic: Informatik
• Subtopic: Hardware

Getting Started with UDOO

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Table of Contents

Getting Started with UDOO

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Turn On the Engines

Introducing the UDOO platform

Downloading and installing Android

Installing from Windows

Installing from Mac OS X

Installing from Linux

Our first run

Setting up the development environment

Installing and using Arduino IDE

Installing in Windows

Installing in Mac OS X

Installing in Linux

First launch

Installing and using Android Studio

Running your first Android application

Summary

2. Know Your Tools

Introducing Arduino Due capabilities

Uploading the first program

Interacting with the real world

Communicating with Arduino

Writing an Android application controller

Android Accessory Development Kit

Fast prototyping a circuit

Using a breadboard

Interacting with external circuits

Sending commands from Android

Summary

3. Testing Your Physical Application

Building a testable circuit

Developing a diagnostic mode

Writing the first test

Summary

4. Using Sensors to Listen to the Environment

Working with environment sensors

Building a heartbeat monitor

Creating a circuit with a light sensor

Collecting data from the sketch

Android for data visualization

Setting up the ADKToolkit

Continuous data readings from Android

Enhancing the prototype

Summary

5. Managing Interactions with Physical Components

Managing user interactions

Building a web radio with physical interaction

Normalizing collected data before sending

Sending multiple data with Arduino

Streaming audio from Android applications

Designing the Android user interface

Setting up the ADK Toolkit

Changing web radio stations

Reading input from physical devices

Managing audio volume

Improving the prototype

Summary

6. Building a Chronotherm for Home Automation

Home automation

Building a chronotherm circuit

Sending data and receiving commands

Managing the chronotherm through Android

Setting up the ADK Toolkit

Designing the Android user interface

Writing the Overview activity

Creating a custom UI component

Finishing the Overview activity

Writing the Settings activity

Managing user's setpoints

Reading setpoints from the Overview activity

Writing setpoints from the Settings activity

Interacting with Arduino

Improving the prototype

Summary

7. Using Android APIs for Human Interaction

Extending prototypes with Android APIs

Improving user settings

Storing preset configurations

Using presets among activities

Implementing voice recognition

Using voice recognition to add or edit presets

Using voice recognition to change active presets

Improving user interaction with voice synthesis

Providing feedback to users

Summary

8. Adding Network Capabilities

Extending Chronotherm with network capabilities

Connecting to REST APIs

Extending the Android user interface

Collecting weather forecast data

Improving the boiler with an antifreeze check

Summary

Index

Getting Started with UDOO

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Credits

Author

Emanuele Palazzetti

Reviewers

Maurizio Caporali

Bill Gatliff

Christian Gil González

Edward Jahn Sayadian

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Commissioning Editor

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Acquisition Editor

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Content Development Editor

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Technical Editor

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Copy Editor

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Cover Work

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Foreword

This book addresses two very important topics: "Programming" and "Programming with Android".

Programming nowadays is indeed more and more tied to interactions with physical space—you can no longer think about programming only pixels of a screen. Thanks to the evolution of mobile devices, application design and development has encountered a vision change. Today, accelerations and physical rotations of devices are managed by software; information changes depending on the geographic location and on common activities such as walking, driving, travelling, and so on. The next step is programming physical objects connected to the Internet, making our houses, cars, and clothes interactive. This book has the merit to introduce this new vision, showing how simple it is to program real objects, creating new smart ones this way. And it fulfils this goal with an UDOO board, Arduino and Android, starting with a simple Android application that lets you control sensor lights, temperature range, LED lights, and lots more.

UDOO, in fact, allows rapid prototyping of projects based on Arduino: the advantage is a tiny computer that is integrated to the Arduino microcontroller, running Android and Linux. The first few chapters highlight how to realize the connection between Android and Arduino, a very simple task due to the Android Accessory Development Kit (ADK) communication protocol, which is UDOO-compatible. The author, to further simplify the implementation of the protocol, introduces an external library, which allows you, with few lines of code, to connect Android to the real world.

After this first introductory part, you are pushed into the DIY philosophy: start getting your hands dirty, which is the most interesting part. There are several examples and no need for great tools. With just a wooden peg and a light sensor, you can build a heartbeat monitor with the added possibility of visualizing and managing data.

Going forward, in the book, you will see more complex projects, but you will also discover how simple it is to realize the interaction between software and...