Interfacing with Other Software

You have come to the place to learn about connecting an Arduino to other devices, whatever software is running on those other devices. The Arduino can "talk", (transmit or receive data data) via a serial channel, so any other device with serial capabilities can communicate with an Arduino. It doesn't matter what program/programming language is driving the other device.

You can either use the Arduino's "main" serial port, the one it uses when you "talk" to it to program it, or you can leave that channel dedicated to programming (and the development environment's serial monitor), and use two other pins for an extra serial link dedicated to the external device.

Some programs (like Flash) don't have native serial capabilities. They can still communicate with Arduino through an intermediary which, like a "translator", enables them to talk to each other.

• Interactive Arduino BASIC interpreter: - An Interactive Arduino BASIC interpreter that runs on the arduino.

• Scada for Arduino - SCADA Acimut Monitoriza for Arduino.

• Processing Modbus Master for Arduino - ModbusMaster class for the Processing environment. ModbusMaster is a class developed in and for the Processing environment. It allows you to communicate with modbus slave devices from within your Processing sketch. It works with any hardware serial port.

• WhiteCat Lighting Board - A lighting application dedicated to theatre and dance embedds communication with the arduino ( use of sliders and buttons, dimmers and motors)

• Firmata - a standard firmware for communication with a variety of software on the computer.

• GoBetwino - a generic proxy that runs on your PC and can do a lot of things that Arduino can not do alone, like starting programs sending e-mails, and a lot more.

• Bitlash - A command shell that interprets commands you type or send programmatically over the serial port.

• Avros: - Yet another small human-readable-writable serial protocol.

• Serial-to-network proxies - programs that allow communication with an Arduino via a network connection.

• Generic case: An example of connecting an Arduino which has an LED and a switch to an external device via a serial link. The external device is the master; the Arduino the slave. While the example uses Delphi in the master, what is in the Arduino could be used unchanged for interfacing to any external master. (Master can turn Arduino LED on or off, and it displays the state of the switch.)

• Arduino + iOS (iPhone+iPad): Ardumote An app for iOS that lets the user design an interface on the iPhone/iPad and send messages to the Arduino wirelessly over WiFi as UDP packets. Supports control of all pins, PWM, and receiving messages for reading sensors.

• Arduino & iOS: Arduino Control You can use this App to control a Arduino using your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It uses JSON for communication. You can change the sketch to make it do or return what you want.

• Arduino + iPhone: MeteoBox This is an App for the iPhone that enables Arduino to publish weather data read from the WeatherShield1. The data are formatted in an XML file ready to be transferred through the Ethernet Shield. The provided sketch let you able to interface to other sensors.

• Arduino + Android: Androino is an open-source library that interfaces android and arduino through an audio connection. A software implementation of a modem-like communication.
• Arduino + Android
• Arduino + Blender
• Arduino + BlitzMax (access restricted to BlitzMax users)
• Arduino + C
• Arduino + C++ (using libSerial)
• Arduino + C++ (for Windows)
• Arduino + C#
• Arduino + C# (Arduino class for C# and Arduino Firmware) Spanish
• Arduino + Calico (Windows, Mac, and Linux): Python, Jigsaw (a visual programming language), Scheme, and more
• Arduino + Cocoa/Objective-C (Mac Only)
• Arduino + Delphi: A general template. The same Arduino code could be used in systems connecting Arduinos with devices programmed with other languages.
• Arduino + Director
• Arduino + Flash
• Arduino + Flowol
• Arduino + FreeBasic
• Arduino + Game Maker
• Arduino + Instant Reality (X3D)
• Arduino + Isadora
• Arduino + Java
• Arduino + JSON
• Arduino + Liberlab (measurement and experimentation software)
• Arduino + Linux TTY
• Arduino + Mathematica
• Arduino + Matlab
• Arduino + MaxMSP
• Arduino + misc generic (1)
• Arduino + misc generic (2) - Any SW via files
• Arduino + Mono
• Arduino + OSC (via Processing)
• Arduino + Pd (Pure data)
• Arduino + PERL
• Arduino + Processing
• Arduino + Python
• Arduino + Ruby
• Arduino + Second Life
• Arduino + Scratch
• Arduino + SQLite - Generic Simple Database input
• Arduino + Squeak
• Arduino + SuperCollider
• Arduino + Unity
• Arduino + VBscript
• Arduino + Virtools
• Arduino + Visual Basic .NET
• Arduino + V V V V
• Arduino + Xterm
• Arduino + Reaper - This sketch for Arduino implements a very simple control surface with a MIDI interface for the Reaper Digital Audio Workstation from Cockos http://reaper.fm Emulates a Frontier AlphaTrack MIDI control surface. Works with DFRobot LCD Keypad Shield for Arduino and Duemilanove. Instructions at the top of the sketch.