Arduino the Ruby Way
summary
Compares Ruby approaches to Arduino (rad compiles Ruby to C, Node’s Johnny Five and duino use async) and delivers a working Ruby gem that talks to Arduino over serial with a txrx communication class, a Board abstraction and small component classes (LED, Button, Sensor, Stepper). The gem uses a custom event loop, has zero dependencies, supports callbacks for asynchronous input, plugs into Sinatra/Rails initializers, and drives a web endpoint that successfully fires a robotic t‑shirt cannon.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:02What is an Arduino?
- 3:19Programming Arduino with Ruby
- 6:24Arduino as a service
- 9:57Introducing the Dino gem
- 16:35Dino gem core structure
- 24:13Digital components
- 29:06Analog components
- 31:41Stepper motors
- 35:35Arduino with web apps
- 37:07Live demonstration
