Category Archives: RAD

On sunday night, I released version 0.2.2 of the Ruby Arduino Development gem. The main focus of this update is compatibility with version 0011 of the Arduino software tools (follow that link for the release notes). While 0010 may still … Continue reading →

It’s been an active few weeks in the world of RAD! First off, RAD 0.2.1 was released last week which includes a bunch of small features and bug-fixes: added first significant documentation fixed require ‘yaml’ bug in makefile.rb added examples … Continue reading →

I’m proud to announce a new release of the Ruby Arduino Development gem (RAD)! This release brings two major new features (software serial serial support and inline assembler), a major revamping of the hardware serial library, and a raft of … Continue reading →

During my recent presentation of RAD at FOSCON, I did two demos: I wrote a ‘hello world’ light-blinking sketch live and I showed and explained a sketch for communicating with the Arduino over serial communication in order to wave a … Continue reading →

FOSCON III was a blast last night. There were lots of talks about subjects as diverse as generating midi and controlling Lego Mindstorms robots with Ruby. Plus, there was the most pizza I’ve ever seen in one place! Thanks a … Continue reading →

Note: I’ll be presenting RAD at FOSCON this coming Tuesday at 7:30pm at Holocene in Portland, Oregon! About a year ago, I started learning microcontroller programming. Microcontrollers are the tiny computers that act as the brains of electronic devices: they … Continue reading →