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Re:Codebender: An online Arduino IDE by exDM69 on Monday July 02, 2012 @03:21AM (#4187744)
As a hacker, I got very quickly frustrated with the Arduino IDE and I wanted to use what I always use: vim and :make. I found that the new "ino" commmand line tool (http://inotool.org/) was the easiest to set up. I added arduino syntax highlighting and a few helpful keybindings for a comfortable hacking experience.

Question to Codebender authors: how did you get access to the serial port from the browser?

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Re:Codebender: An online Arduino IDE by tzikis on Monday July 02, 2012 @04:25AM (#4187913)
It wasn't that hard, really. Originally we wanted to use Firefox's and Chrome's native javascript APIs, but they aren't stable yet, we had to do double the work and even then we could only target two of the major browsers. So what we do is run a Java Applet which communicates with our Javascript and gives us access to the serial ports.
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