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The new Joystick service will use JInput & be supported on Windows, Linux & Mac.  It will support Joysticks, Gamepads & Rumblers.  It will have configurable transforms, so you can send the output of an axis directly to an Arduino, Motor shield, or Servo ....

Up to 12 buttons are supported and each button event can be routed to another service...

More to come !

"Finally"...  presenting "The Arduino Service - reloaded (again)" -  it's not ready for "prime time" , but it's starting to come together.  It would be great if I could get some testing & feedback..  with enough updates I'm hoping it might even be useful :)

If your interested,
here are the steps to get started in graphic detail..

Update 2012.08.09 - High Density 3D Point Cloud in Java3D - Video Up

Same scene zoomed in

Digital inputs are now working. I'd do a screenshot of a Arduino Mega 2560 - but only have a Uno compatible board this minute.  The 2560 give you a LOT of lines. Finally seperated Arduino IDE's compiler & uploader from the gui.  Still needs a bit of clean up.  I like the new Rainbow Traces !  Starting to move on to OpenCV updates !  So much has changed.....

With this short Jython script, an Arduino service is created and a Arduino sketch is compiled then uploaded to the microcontroller.  In this case the sketch is MRLComm which allows communication between MRL and Arduio, but other sketches could be loaded too, depending on the state of the Borg :)

Here's a preview..  Complete with Java & Jython consoles, plus lovely open, save, restart and execute buttons.  I'll be looking into autocompletion and caret positioning after Jython errors....

Install Eclipse

• Download Eclipse Indigo for Java SE developers.
• Unpack tar into ~/
  • Create shortcut on desktop that points at /home/myuser/eclipse/eclipse
• Install Eclipse Software:
  • Git
  • Subclipse
  • ADT-Plugin (Android)

Download MRL source

Assumes workspace used is "~/workspace"

Whoa.. it all became clear now.  The folks who created the first Arduino IDE, gutted Processing and changed the "export to applet" to compile & upload to an Arduino board.  That is why there are so many Java file references and other applet related amalgams.  Time to hack & stich it up more !