ProtoPie Connect can communicate with Arduino devices via serial (USB) connection. The most typical setup would be connecting the Arduino to the USB port of PC/machine running ProtoPie Connect.
Use ProtoPie Connect’s Connect Arduino menu to establish connection with the Arduino hardware.
The serial communication between ProtoPie Connect and Arduino happens in “Message||Value” format. If the intention is to send a message without a value, “Message” will suffice.
All Serial printed ****content from the Arduino will be sent to ProtoPie Connect, which will be relayed onto the prototypes. Most commonly used method for this use case is Serial.println().
- Example Arduino code for sending {message: “ROTATE”, value: “90”} every 2 seconds
Messages from ProtoPie Connect will also communicate with the Arduino in “Message||Value format, so if the Arduino wants to do something with these messages it needs to have code to parse these messages.
- Example Arduino code for receiving and parsing messages from ProtoPie Connect.