Using Flash to send over GPS coordinates

Using Arduino Interfacing w/ Software on the Computer
#1

I've been wrapping my brain around sending commands from flash to the arduino and interpreting the data correctly. After following the tutorial listed in the playground that explains how to send a double over to the arduino, I started to ask myself... 'how can I send a set of doubles over, or a set of gps coordinates?'

I don't need an explicit answer as I'm trying to figure this out for myself- but for some reason I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around the idea of sending over a latitude and always having the arduino know to store that in the eeprom as a latitude rather than a longitude. Does anyone have any tips into what I should look into?

Thanks!

#2

I guess I'm confused now, whenever I send a string from flash the arduino just sees it as a byte array.

#3

I guess I'm confused now, whenever I send a string from flash the arduino just sees it as a byte array.

Yeah. And the problem with that is?

You need to send something that you know how to parse. Like "Lat: 123.45 Lon: 987.65". Then, you need to parse it.

#4

Makes sense. I'll start from the get go.

I've been developing on an uno and for my first project I've been working on a GPS navigation system. I have all the GPS stuff working; it gives me my distance and all the data I need etc... So, to take this to the next level, I wanted to build a flash front end to save a destination using google maps. I've seen some of the flash+arduino integration tutorials through the playground, but so far all the tutorials I've seen are either using the NETLab or teach you how to turn a light on and off.

The idea of parsing a byte array and converting the data back into a data structure the arduino can use is a bit daunting for me at the moment. I figured how to parse floats with this tutorial: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/08/01/sending-multibyte-numbers-from-actionscript-to-arduino/

But beyond this, I wasn't sure how to identify the data as one type of variable or another (does that make sense?). I will say that I just found this library (aJson), which looks really promising. I can build a json object from flash or any web service without any issues. http://interactive-matter.eu/how-to/ajson-arduino-json-library/

#5