Arduino

Arduino hardly needs an introduction. Arduinos have been used by hobbyists worldwide to build all manner of gadgets from real-life iron man suits to rubik cube solving robots. Arduino started out as a platform for learning, education and general hackery. But don’t be too quick to judge. More recent additions to the Arduino family make it a serious prospect for building commercial systems on a budget. The MKR footprint was introduced with a range of different wireless communication technologies aimed at IoT applications. Recently Arduino announced the release of the powerful new Portenta H7. With a dual Cortex M7 (480MHz) + M4 processor (240MHz), WiFi, Bluetooth 5.1, ethernet, and the ability to run computer vision applications in TensorFlow Lite - this is a far cry from the humble Arduino Uno. It provides plenty of grunt to meet the requirements of many demanding industrial applications.

Support

At present, Arduino boards with the Arduino Uno and MKR form factors are supported.

Getting Started

• Install the BaseJumper library for Arduino.
• Add #include "BaseJumper.h at the top of your sketch. Note that this should be inserted automatically when you select the library.
• All BaseJumper code is inside the namespace BaseJumper. You might wish to bring this namespace into scope with a using directive: using namespace BaseJumper;

Example

This simple example turns on a LED when a switch is pressed. With the BaseJumper Arduino library installed you can also find it in the Arduino IDE under File > Examples > BaseJumper > button_led.

/* Button LED example 
 * 
 * To run this example you will need to wire a switch to Digital Input 1 on your baseboard.
 * Connect one terminal of the switch to the digital input, and the other to 5V. The baseboard 
 * will provide a 5V reference that you can use. Refer to the documentation (link below) for 
 * the base-board pin-outs. When the switch is closed, the LED should turn on. The LED is located 
 * on the baseboard itself. If the baseboard is inside an enclosure, you might need to remove it 
 * from the enclosure to see the LED.
 */  

#include <BaseJumper.h>

using namespace BaseJumper;

// create circut handles
static DigitalInput::Handle button(0);
static Led::Handle led(0);

void setup() 
{  
  basejumper_init();

  led.create();
  button.create();
}

void loop() 
{
    /* Turn led on when button is pressed and off when button is released */
    if (button.get_state())
    {
      led.set_state(Led::State::On);
    }
    else
    {
      led.set_state(Led::State::Off);
    }
    delay(50);
}

Pin Mappings

*There may be additional connections made for powering & resetting the platform that are not included in this table.
*Arduino pin numbers refer to the digital pin number.