arduino-ruby
Hardware
arduino ruby gem
SHOW HN2011
51points
10comments
#240of 1,097 in 2011
Top 22%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.
Docs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for prototyping, especially remote robot work
From 1 comment
Nice, this will come in handy with the telepresence robot I and my friend have been building http://samratjp.posterous.com/look-ma-im-controlling-a-telepresence-robot Yeah, it's…
samratjp on HN
Objections
Board must be connected via serial port
From 1 comment
RAD compiles your ruby code to arduino programs everytime you want to run it. This arduino gem is a load-once-and-play thing. You load the provided arduino.pde file to the board…
SingAlong on HN
Requests
Support for Bluetooth and Wifi shields
From 1 comment
RAD compiles your ruby code to arduino programs everytime you want to run it. This arduino gem is a load-once-and-play thing. You load the provided arduino.pde file to the board…
SingAlong on HN
Fix broken relative link to arduino.pde
From 1 comment
the link to arduino.pde seems busted (relative rather than absolute url).
throw_away on HN
Questions
How does it compare to RAD
From 1 comment
Nice! How's this compare to RAD? https://github.com/atduskgreg/rad
steveklabnik on HN
Is the Arduino part based on Firmata
From 1 comment
is the arduino part based on firmata?
rincewind on HN
Alternatives named
RAD
From 1 comment
Nice! How's this compare to RAD? https://github.com/atduskgreg/rad
steveklabnik on HN
Firmata
From 1 comment
is the arduino part based on firmata?
rincewind on HN
USB Bitwhacker
From 1 comment
So this makes the Arduino act kind of like a USB bitwhacker? Or does it use a higher level of abstraction than that? http://www.sparkfun.com/products/762
nitrogen on HN