8:30 – 430 FP

• Just for kicks, looking for Arduino communication from Java, basically ’cause I don’t want to fry my brain switching gears to C++ if I don’t have to.
• From http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Java:
• The Arduino IDE itself is written in Java, and it can communicate to the serial port via the RXTX Java library. That library is very similar to the Java Communications API extension. Internally the IDE remembers which port and baud rate you used last time. Unfortunately that internal implementation can not be considered public API you can reliably use. So you will have to keep your own settings to remember which COM port your Arduino card is using.
• Getting the Arduino IDE for windows: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
• Following along with the “Getting Started” instructions pointed to by the IDE. IN my case, they are installed with the software from the above step at file:///C:/Arduino%20IDE%20distros/arduino-1.0/reference/Guide_Windows.html
• Installed Visual Studio – that took a while…
• Working on hand modelling