Anyone Using a Tablet to Program Arduino? You know..to be that super cool smart person in Barnes & Nobles that people take notice at?
isn't there an app for that like a usb to serial converter, but you'd have to supply power to the arduino.
That would the best thing to every be accomplished. Portable programming!
i was thinking you'd just need a usb port on the tablet. I know a laptop can support 5v, but can a tablet?
USB OTG connector and arduinodroid or android duino (don't remember which is which). It is not very fully functional but you can show them how to blink an led or something simple. I used it with Samsung Galaxy S3 phone. Don't get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 for this job. It doesn't support high power USB clients.
There was I post that I saw somewhere where somebody was using an Apple dock <--> TTL breakout connector along with a custom coded app to control and monitor serial. You could probably use something like that, but it would probably be hard to get the compiler to run on the iPad.
Something like this:http://www.makershed.com/RedPark_TTL_iOS_Cable_Breakout_Pack_p/msbun36.htm
liudr:
USB OTG connector and arduinodroid or android duino (don't remember which is which).
It's ArduinoDroid - Arduino IDE for Android.
Martin.
Why would it be hard to run Arduino's compiler on the iPad? Is it because of MAC's operating system? I was thinking the iPad would have the processing capability to program Arduino. XD
encryptor:
Why would it be hard ... I was thinking ...
Just because you don't understand the issues doesn't mean there aren't any. You need to either understand the issues involved and implement it for yourself, or find somebody else with similar requirements who has already implemented what you want. I'm guessing that you're not going to be implementing it for yourself any time soon, in which case your only option is to look for an existing solution. Given that a tablet isn't an obvious development environment I wouldn't be optimistic about finding a cross-compiler ported to whatever tablet you're hoping to use, and since you're asking here I guess you haven't found one either. With the increasing popularity of tablets you may find somebody gets a solution working eventually, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
Apple is not like other companies. You won't see arduino IDE on ipads. Your best bet is to get a windows 8 tablet, which are selling at discounted prices. It is a fully functional computer, if you insist on tablet form factor.