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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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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