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RESTful Rational Arduino

After spending some time with a few arduinos and a stack of weird shields it dawned on me that writing application specific code to flash to the arduino every time I come up with an idea was stupid.

I spent some time pondering the best way to abstract this, by ponder I mean drink beers, chase girls, and not think about it. Then it dawned on me that addressing this in a RESTful way could keep me from having to flash my arduino ever really. At least in prototyping.

Enter RESTduino and Pyaler.

Pyaler has some really awesome applications that I am fairly uninterested in. The most obvious being home automation. I live in a subletted condo and can flip a light switch by myself usually. I’m fairly certain some sort of awesome use will pop into my head here in the next week or so though. I don’t have a flock of arduinos to manage, but it’s nice to know I could if I did.

RESTduino is similar on a smaller scale and has less dependancies. Currently I’ve been using a Processing sketch to handle OSC (Open Sound Control) signals and hand them over to the arduino outputs. I like this because I can use TouchOSC on my iphone for fast testing/troubleshooting. I’m really hoping to adopt this process to simplify. 

I’ll be tearing both of these apart this weekend and really figuring out my stack. Wish me luck.

  1. millerhooks posted this