This is a port of the host program from rweather's ardpicprog to Java.
Some refactoring has taken place with the objective of clarifying the code and applying modern idioms (such as replacing some of the extensive return value checking with exceptions). It may be too early to tell if this effort is successful. Most of the guts haven't been extensively touched, other than to make the original C++ look enough like Java to compile.
The code has not been thoroughly tested.
- RXTX
- Java port of GNU Getopt
After this program is compiled, something like this should work:
java -cp <classpath> us.hfgk.ardpicprog.App -p <port> --list-devices
Be sure to set -p to a value that makes sense (e.g. -p COM1 on
Windows or -p /dev/ttyUSB0 on Ubuntu); the default isn't too sensible
(yet).
Being a more-or-less straight port of the ardpicprog host, this
program is intended to be compatible with the same hardware—an Arduino
connected via a minimal interface
circuit to
a PIC microcontroller and loaded with either the
ProgramPIC
sketch or the
ProgramEEPROM
sketch.
If you have access to both this software and the original ardpicprog
host, I'd like to hear how my version stacks up. If you think you've
found a bug, please post an issue on
GitHub.
This project actually constitutes the first of a two-step process to port ardpicprog to Python. I'm looking to provide an implementation that's easy for novices to hack on while still likely to work on multiple platforms. I picked Java because it has strong static typing and other features that help keep my mistakes in compile time rather than run time, and because much of the original C++ code is just a few string replaces away from being valid Java. Once the codebase is working in Java, refactoring tools can be used to make the code Python-like enough to serve as a useful basis for porting.
Original code Copyright (C) 2012 Southern Storm Software, Pty Ltd.
Java port Copyright (C) 2014 Peter S. May
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.