CSC231 Lab 6

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CSC 231 Lab # 6

© D. Thiebaut, 2008

In this lab we are going to make the Arduino keep on listening to commands it gets from the assembly language on the PC, and execute each command as it receives them.

Getting the Messenger Library for the Arduino

You need a new library for the Arduino called Messenger

• Boot the Ubuntu CD-Rom
• Open a Terminal window and type

  sudo su
  cd 
  wget http://www.arduino.cc/playground/uploads/Code/Messenger.zip

• unzip the file

  unzip Messenger.zip

• Copy the file in the Arduino hardware/libraries directory.

Assembly Part

• Open a Terminal window under Ubuntu and type

  sudo su
  cd

• Highlight the contents of the file driver.c and type Control-C to copy it to the clipboard
• In the terminal window type

  cat > driver.c

and then click the middle button of your mouse to paste the code you had highlighted

• Type Control-D to close the file.
• Repeat the same operations for the files
  • asm_io.inc
  • asm_io.asm
  • ledOn.asm