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Bamduino by David Buckley | January 2014 |
Bamduino uses commands over a serial link, via an FTDI USB/Serial converter, from a Serial-Monitor rather than from an IR-controller, this allows many more commands to be used and importantly it allows the commands to be human readable ASCII which is a real advantage.
Bambino Arduino was first shown to the public in May 2014 at the Bay Area Maker Faire by Michael Margolis where it was filmed by Lem Fugitt for his Robots-Dreams site, sadly Lem died and his site has gone.
A friend started calling the Arduino version of Bambino, Bamduino, hence Bamduino!
Upgrades
2 June 2021 I decided to revisit the IR problem and despite the complicated descriptions of the Sony IR protocol one can find on the web, it really is very simple. I wrote my own routine to decode the signals from a Sony handset as sold in the PicAxe Store, it took seven short lines of code!
Bamduino now at BA50_IR can be controlled from a Sony-handset as well as over a Serial link.
There is now a page here with Arduino routines for IRin, Serout, and Serin as in PicAxe Basic.
5 February 2022 upgrade to BA51, added commands 'a' and [f^] to execute inbuilt subroutines and sounds.
18 February 2022 upgrade to BA52_IRout, command 'T' to transmit by IR IR commands so Bamduino can talk to other Bamduinos, Bambinos or even Aesir.
3 March 2022BA53_turnUS - t-,a-,[^][-] turn to object, t+,a+.[^][+] turn to open space.
The ProMini version is too full for help entries for the new commands.