MiMic RemoteMCU for mbed. This program provides MCU control API over REST API. It can control MCU from Javascript,PHP or any HTTP rest client directly. And, The application has self development environment.

Dependencies:   libMiMic mbed-rtos mbed NySDFileSystem

English

This is MiMic project product.

Recently modern browser is very useful. If we write small HTML code, we can draw graphics, play music. And more, we can use a lot of libraries. For example, physics engine and WebGL and .

However, the browser is clumsy for things of outside computer. For example, it can not control switching of LED and read sensor value easily.

If you can control the device outside of the computer like writing a Web page HTML, it is very convenient.

MiMicRemoteMCU enables to control directly mbed(LPC1768/LPC4088/LPCXpresso1769) by browser application .

Feature 

This is the features of MiMicRemoteMCU to experience for the user.

MiMicRemoteMCU has builtin web content in on-chip memory and some WebAPI. Browser can access contents through internal web server. The web server can handle 4 connections in parallel. Average transport speed is 1.6Mbps.

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Browser(User interface) centralized system

From the perspective of the web browser, MiMicRemoteMCU is a standard web server. There is a Web browser is the center of the system.

By designing the browser center system, you can easily implement cooperation with multi-media system or external Web services. And, You can take advantage of all online resources that you can access from the browser. It was difficult in the standalone microcomputer legacy applications design.

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Getting started

See more information here(Japanese).

This is old documentation(English).

日本語

新しいAPIを搭載したmbedJSをリリースしました。mbedJSのご利用をご検討ください。

Import programmbedJS

This is a Json-RPC/2.0 server with websocket and httpd. You can control mbed(s) by Javascript, processing, Java. LPCXpresso1769/LPC1768/FRDM-K64F/LPC4088

このアプリケーションはMiMic project を使った製品です。

最近のブラウザって便利ですよね。HTMLをちょこっと書けば、絵を描いたり音楽を再生したり、OpenGLやら物理演算やらなんでも出来てしまいます。

でもコンピュータの外の事、例えばその辺にあるLEDを点滅させたいとかちょっとセンサの値を読み出したいとか。そういったものには途端に不器用になります。

Webページを書くような感覚でコンピュータの外にあるデバイスを操作できれば便利だと思いませんか?

MiMicRemoteMCUをインストールしたmbed(LPCXpresso1769)を使えば、コンピュータの外にあるデバイスを、ブラウザから直接扱うことができます。

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機能

MiMicRemoteMCUの機能を紹介します。対外的な機能はMiMicRemoteMCUのROMContentsに収録されており、内蔵Webサーバを通じてWebブラウザから提供します。このWebサーバは最大4接続までのコネクションを、平均1.6Mbpsで提供することができます。

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MiMicのアプリケーション開発

MiMicRemoteMCUはブラウザ中心のフィジカルコンピューティングを実装することに適しています。ブラウザ中心のシステムを設計することで、従来のマイコン単体アプリケーションでは難しかった外部Webサービスやマルチメディアシステムとの連携を容易に実装できます。さらにブラウザからアクセスできる全ての場所にあるオンラインリソースを活用することが出来ます。

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導入方法

こちらの記事をご覧ください。

Committer:
nyatla
Date:
Mon May 06 11:45:20 2013 +0000
Revision:
18:0b1759b8d55f
Parent:
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Child:
21:6555a25e67e7
update index.html,MiMicIL asm; bugfix default http status code to 302;

Who changed what in which revision?

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nyatla 4:00b4e7596014 1 #include "mbed.h"
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 2 #include "SDFileSystem.h"
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 3 #include "mimic.h"
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 4 #include "fsdata.h"
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 5
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 6 /**
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 7 * local filesystem support.
nyatla 16:06dee6eef0bc 8 * MiMic::LocalFileSystem2 do not freeze on LPCXpresso.
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 9 */
nyatla 16:06dee6eef0bc 10 LocalFileSystem2 lf("local");
nyatla 7:8cbfa0625c51 11 SDFileSystem sd(p5, p6, p7, p8,"sd");
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 12
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 13
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 14 /**
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 15 * MiMic RemoteMCU httpd.<br/>
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 16 * <p>Service list</p>
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 17 * <pre>
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 18 * /rom/ - romfs
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 19 * /setup/ - MiMic configulation REST API.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 20 * /local/ - mbed LocalFileSystem
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 21 * /mvm/ - MiMicVM REST API
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 22 * </pre>
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 23 */
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 24 class MiMicRemoteMcu:public MiMic::Httpd
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 25 {
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 26 private:
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 27 ModRomFiles modromfs; //ROM file module
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 28 ModMiMicSetting mimicsetting; //mimic setting API
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 29 ModRemoteMcu remotemcu; // remotemcu API
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 30 ModLocalFileSystem modlocal; //basic URL parser
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 31 ModLocalFileSystem modsd; //basic URL parser
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 32
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 33 public:
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 34 MiMicRemoteMcu():Httpd(80)
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 35 {
nyatla 7:8cbfa0625c51 36 this->modromfs.setParam("rom",RMCU_FSDATA,20);
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 37 this->mimicsetting.setParam("setup");
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 38 this->remotemcu.setParam("mvm");
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 39 this->modlocal.setParam("local");
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 40 this->modsd.setParam("sd");
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 41 }
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 42 virtual void onRequest(HttpdConnection& i_connection)
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 43 {
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 44 //try to ModRomFS module.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 45 if(this->modromfs.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 46 return;
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 47 }
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 48 //try to ModMiMicSetting module.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 49 if(this->mimicsetting.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 50 return;
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 51 }
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 52 //try to ModRemoteMcu module.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 53 if(this->remotemcu.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 54 return;
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 55 }
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 56 //try to ModLocalFileSystem
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 57 if(this->modlocal.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 58 return;
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 59 }
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 60 //try to ModLocalFileSystem(SD)
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 61 if(this->modsd.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 62 return;
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 63 }
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 64
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 65 //Otherwise, Send the redirect response to /rom/index.html
nyatla 18:0b1759b8d55f 66 i_connection.sendHeader(302,
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 67 "text/html",
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 68 "Status: 302:Moved Temporarily\r\n"
nyatla 4:00b4e7596014 69 "Location: /rom/index.html\r\n");
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 70 return;
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 71 }
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 72 };
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 73
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 74 int main()
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 75 {
nyatla 4:00b4e7596014 76 NetConfig cfg; //create network configulation with onchip-setting.
nyatla 9:18e9bf764cc1 77 //try to override setting by local file.
nyatla 16:06dee6eef0bc 78 if(!cfg.loadFromFile("/local/mimic.cfg")){
nyatla 17:0d2911b6f337 79 wait_ms(1000);//wait for SD card initialization.
nyatla 16:06dee6eef0bc 80 cfg.loadFromFile("/sd/mimic.cfg");
nyatla 16:06dee6eef0bc 81 }
nyatla 4:00b4e7596014 82 Net net(cfg); //create a net instance
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 83 MiMicRemoteMcu httpd; //create a httpd instance.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 84 httpd.loop(); //start httpd loop.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 85 return 0;
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 86 }