Cheerinos

Note: this is work in progress!

Cheerinos is an Arduino serial communication library to make serial communication between python and arduino easy.

Packet structure

SOH - ASCII Start of header
HEADER - Includes from_addr, to_addr, and num_bytes of payload
STX - ASCII Start of text
PAYLOAD - Payload data
ETX - ASCII End of text
CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check (8 bits)
EOT - ASCII End of Transmission

TODOs

Python Boost bindings
Wait for ACK/NACK
Implement CRC
Test with 2 instances of cheerinos

To run tests:

First build with g++
- g++ -o test ring_byte_buf.cpp sim_serial.cpp cheerinos.cpp test.cpp
Run test
- ./test