Arduino Blog reports on Mikael Moerup’s Gobetwino software – a basic proxy between Windows programs and Arduino boards (though it works with other serial-capable devices as well). Using the included command templates, one can write their own sketch capable of doing the following –
- Start a program on the PC. Start a program, and wait until it finishes, and tell Arduino it finished.
- Send data to any windows program from Arduino, like it was typed on the keyboard.
- Send email, optionally with an attached file.
- Download a file from the internet.
- Read a file and return data to Arduino.
- Log data from Arduino to a file, with an optional timestamp.
- Periodically check a POP3 mailbox for incoming mails and send commands from the mail to Arduino.
- Get the time from the PC.
- Get the date from the PC.
- Ping a host or IP address.
- Copy a file on the PC.
With combinations of these commands you can do things like:
- Start any program on your PC, either directly or via an associated file type.
- Start Excel, send data from Arduino directly into the Excel sheet, save the sheet and email it, without touching your PC.
- Send e-mails to a POP3 mailbox and have Arduino react to the contents of the emails.
- Log data directly to a CSV file on the PC, so the data can be used in spreadsheets or databases.
- Download a file from the internet and have Arduino ask for a specific line of data from the file.
The software is free and includes a manual and example sketches, source to come. Head over to the site to give it a go.
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if you have text messaging on your cell phone, you could use this to send a text via email that is triggered by the arduino.
For example:
If you have the verizon service, you can send an email to your_ten_digit_number@vtext.com and it will send the message to your cell phone as a txt msg.
Usually you are limited to 160 characters including the subject.
THANKS Collin!!
I discovered Arduino a little while back through MAKEblog, but discovered GoBetwino on a google search that landed me in the arduino forums.
Searched it here, and found it was ‘warm’ news. Hope more people find out about it.
np! glad you found it useful :)
Well, lucky for me I work tue-fri, so I can keep playing.
Third day in, and I now have an Arduino duemilanove with 5 temperature senders posting data with a time stamp in Excel every 10 seconds. This is on a vintage (98-00) compaq laptop running XPpro.
For the time being, it is being made into a diagnostic tool for refrigerator repair. Ranges(stoves) next, after I research how to connect thermocouples to Arduino.
Altered my code to run 1000 samples, and the laptop is humming away. My refrigerator has never been so documented :)
GoBetwino opens up such a world of computer/Arduino interface that I didn’t have before. Wow.