Getting access to Mega 2560 serial port from Linux serial console

Getting access to Mega 2560 serial port from Linux serial console

If you have a ready-to-run Arduino Mega 2560 application that is managed by an external program running on a PC and you wish using it on Cosino’s Mega 2560 extension you may wish get access to the standard Arduino serial port… of course you can do it by getting access to Cosino’s /dev/ttyS3 device but,…

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Managing the Mega 2560 peripherals by MODBUS protocol

Managing the Mega 2560 peripherals by MODBUS protocol

As shown in this article you can interact with the Mega 2560 CPU on your Cosino Mega 2560 board by using a control terminal with several text commands, however, as stated at the end of the article, this behaviour in quite inefficient so a better way must be used for production environment! A possible solution…

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Mega 2560 control terminal

Mega 2560 control terminal

In most cases having a simple and quick access to the system GPIOs, ADCs and other ports is useful, here I’m going to show to you how to implement a simple control terminal for the on-board CPU of Cosino’s Mega 2560 extension. In this example I’m going to use simple commands from the command line as…

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Building Mega 2560 applications from the command line

Building Mega 2560 applications from the command line

Most of Arduino programmers well know the Arduino's GUI where they usually build their applications, but exists another way to build Arduino applications: directly from the command line with little help from other tools! Let's see how!  Note: Programmers whose love managing their programs from the command line may enjoy this little tutorial :-] First…

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Cosino Mega 2560 – User Manual

Cosino Mega 2560 – User Manual

This product can be bought at our shop as: Cosino Mega 2560 Cosino Mega 2560 Developer KIT (special price!) Cosino Mega 2560 UHF RFID KIT (special price!) Cosino core module + Mega 2560 extension Overview The system supports any Arduino Mega 2560 shields which makes it suitable for extending all applications based on Mega 2560 and that…

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