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:
Thu Jul 18 08:54:13 2013 +0000
Revision:
27:a3b49b4a814d
Parent:
25:cac6a29eda5d
Child:
28:3d7bac2a6278
bugfix main.cpp

Who changed what in which revision?

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nyatla 4:00b4e7596014 1 #include "mbed.h"
nyatla 27:a3b49b4a814d 2 #include "rtos.h"
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 3 #include "SDFileSystem.h"
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 4 #include "mimic.h"
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 5 #include "fsdata.h"
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 6
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 7 /**
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 8 * local filesystem support.
nyatla 16:06dee6eef0bc 9 * MiMic::LocalFileSystem2 do not freeze on LPCXpresso.
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 10 */
nyatla 16:06dee6eef0bc 11 LocalFileSystem2 lf("local");
nyatla 7:8cbfa0625c51 12 SDFileSystem sd(p5, p6, p7, p8,"sd");
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 13
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 14
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 15 /**
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 16 * MiMic RemoteMCU httpd.<br/>
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 17 * <p>Service list</p>
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 18 * <pre>
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 19 * /rom/ - romfs
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 20 * /setup/ - MiMic configulation REST API.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 21 * /local/ - mbed LocalFileSystem
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 22 * /mvm/ - MiMicVM REST API
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 23 * </pre>
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 24 */
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 25 class MiMicRemoteMcu:public MiMic::Httpd
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 26 {
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 27 private:
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 28 ModRomFiles modromfs; //ROM file module
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 29 ModMiMicSetting mimicsetting; //mimic setting API
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 30 ModRemoteMcu remotemcu; // remotemcu API
nyatla 23:1861be744ad1 31 ModLocalFileSystem modlocal; //FileSystem mounter
nyatla 23:1861be744ad1 32 ModLocalFileSystem modsd; //FileSystem mounter
nyatla 23:1861be744ad1 33 ModFileIo modfio; //fileupload API
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 34 public:
nyatla 21:6555a25e67e7 35 MiMicRemoteMcu(NetConfig& i_cfg):Httpd(i_cfg._inst.services.http_port)
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 36 {
nyatla 25:cac6a29eda5d 37 this->modromfs.setParam("rom",RMCU_FSDATA,17);
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 38 this->mimicsetting.setParam("setup");
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 39 this->remotemcu.setParam("mvm");
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 40 this->modlocal.setParam("local");
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 41 this->modsd.setParam("sd");
nyatla 23:1861be744ad1 42 this->modfio.setParam("fio");
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 43 }
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 44 virtual void onRequest(HttpdConnection& i_connection)
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 45 {
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 46 //try to ModRomFS module.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 47 if(this->modromfs.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 48 return;
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 49 }
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 50 //try to ModMiMicSetting module.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 51 if(this->mimicsetting.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 52 return;
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 53 }
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 54 //try to ModRemoteMcu module.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 55 if(this->remotemcu.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 56 return;
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 57 }
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 58 //try to ModLocalFileSystem
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 59 if(this->modlocal.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 60 return;
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 61 }
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 62 //try to ModLocalFileSystem(SD)
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 63 if(this->modsd.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 64 return;
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 65 }
nyatla 23:1861be744ad1 66 //try to FileUpload
nyatla 23:1861be744ad1 67 if(this->modfio.execute(i_connection)){
nyatla 23:1861be744ad1 68 return;
nyatla 23:1861be744ad1 69 }
nyatla 3:335512e81ba9 70
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 71 //Otherwise, Send the redirect response to /rom/index.html
nyatla 18:0b1759b8d55f 72 i_connection.sendHeader(302,
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 73 "text/html",
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 74 "Status: 302:Moved Temporarily\r\n"
nyatla 4:00b4e7596014 75 "Location: /rom/index.html\r\n");
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 76 return;
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 77 }
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 78 };
nyatla 5:227d20070da4 79
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 80 int main()
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 81 {
nyatla 4:00b4e7596014 82 NetConfig cfg; //create network configulation with onchip-setting.
nyatla 21:6555a25e67e7 83 Net net; //create a net instance
nyatla 9:18e9bf764cc1 84 //try to override setting by local file.
nyatla 16:06dee6eef0bc 85 if(!cfg.loadFromFile("/local/mimic.cfg")){
nyatla 27:a3b49b4a814d 86 Thread::wait(2000);//wait for SD card initialization.
nyatla 16:06dee6eef0bc 87 cfg.loadFromFile("/sd/mimic.cfg");
nyatla 16:06dee6eef0bc 88 }
nyatla 21:6555a25e67e7 89 MiMicRemoteMcu httpd(cfg); //create a httpd instance.
nyatla 21:6555a25e67e7 90 net.start(cfg);
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 91 httpd.loop(); //start httpd loop.
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 92 return 0;
nyatla 1:82b8312c78a1 93 }