When [antoker] is working on a microcontroller project, he often has to write short bits of test code to make sure everything in his circuit is working properly. This is a time-consuming task, and a while back he started on a small side project. It’s a command line interface for a microcontroller that allows him to send short commands to the uC over a serial connection to play around with the ADC, UART, and GPIO pins.
[antoker]‘s tiny Unix-like environment is based on modules that can keep track of the time, print the current commands and stack to a terminal, and query things like the current speed of the uC and the available Flash and RAM.
This tiny shell also has scripting capabilities and a jump function, making this a true programming language, however minimal it is. Right now [antoker]‘s work is available for the TI Stellaris and Tiva series microcontrollers, and a video of a scripted Larson scanner is available below.
Filed under: Microcontrollers
