Tuesday October 29th, 2013

Evaluating Event-Driven Libraries for Arduino

We have been thinking about how to make Ardublock more intuitive and adding event based control blocks seem to be the way to go. We’d like to enable new comers to Arduino to easily express the idea of “When X happens, we do Y” and have multiple of them written in clean style. We have evaluated all the event driven and multitask libraries for Arduino that we can find. Here is a summary.

Arduino-EventManager
last update: 2013-01
Arduino Event Manager last update: 2011-01-24
QP
By Quantum Leaps
last update: 2013-06-02A lot of people seem to use
It’s an RTOS with its own IDE (QDK, QP Development Kit for arduino).
Code is very complicated, do not know what he is doing
arduino 1.0 and 00xx libraries using the two different QP
Kernel
by Evan Boldt
last update: 2013-02-07
Similar to the javascript setInterval
Metro
last update: 2009-01-19
Time-driven , but also set an interval
Arduino – softtimer
by Prampec
last update: 2012-12
Also set the interval
But he said there was no delay
Read the code a bit mean, but too much, did not see
Ebl-arduino
Event-Based Library for Arduino
last update 2011-07
Finally there is an event for the pin
Aiko
by geekscape
last update: a year ago
aiko arduino official seems to have given a long time not updated, but other fork is actually very active, such as samotage of
Also set the interval
NilRTOS
last update: 2013-02
NilRTOS is a good RTOS, but its configuration is too flexible and sophisticated , difficult to integrate
There are similar and his
NilRTOS
ChibiRTOS
FreeRTOS
SCoop
adOS
ieOS
SCoop
Easy to use Arduino libraries , and mega uno and Arduino1.x Arduino-00xx are supported, that’s you ! !
PciManager
Compiled are compiled , however, can be compiled after the change is good or not . .
PinChangeInt
This is good if people use more, but only to support Uno, mega what else do not support , and quick to die. .