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Holiday Hacking: Arduino libraries are ready

Every year around this time I feel the urge to write some low-level code. This year, in preparation for the HCI design studio class next quarter, I spent some days working on different ways to ease the connection between the Arduino hardware platform and Adobe Flash.

Based on Massimo Banzi's eth_Firmata code, I put
together a package to enable Firmata-over-TCP communication between Flash and an Arduino board with ethernet shield and Firmata 2 firmware.

Sources and installation instructions are available at
bitbucket.org/bjoern/firmata-eth/

On the Flash side, I also released the first public beta of the as3glue library for Firmata v2 at
code.google.com/p/as3glue/.