CloudACM

The most direct route between a smart phone and the micro controller world of sensor appears to be bluetooth.  This wireless technology has been around for some time now.  The hard work has been done and the road has been laid out. Control your Arduino board from your Android device over Bluetooth, here’s a demo.  How easy is that! The adapters are simple and inexpensive.  The smart phones have bluetooth support.  It just makes sense.  I was able to find…

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The connections subject spanned at least 8 percent of the entire material covered.  Most of it pertained to wired connections and physical connector types.  There was little mention of wireless options.  Those that were included RF, Sound, and Light.  None of these were demonstrated with code or some working example. Since the next quarter will involve cloud data processing, this data will need to be uploaded wirelessly.  This will introduce new methods like WiFi and GSM.  I would like to…

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The subject mater covered this quarter was done in a strange and different way than I had traditionally.  The daily blog entries and micro projects didn’t give me the same sense of purpose that term papers had in the past.  The scattered nature of the material made me aware that the blog entries were key in gathering it together.  It was by this that my sense of purpose and accomplishment became clear.  Unlike the term papers, the blog still has…

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