Control the Physical World with Ruby and Artoo

Ruby is a pretty slick language. But, in the past, whenever anyone mentioned "embedded" no one thought of the word "slick". Instead, visions of terribly written C with lots of bit mashing or flashbacks to inordinate amounts of time spent with inadequate lighting trying to fight with a breadboard often came to mind. Fortunately, this is no longer the case with Artoo. Artoo is a cool library that allows Ruby to control and interact with lots of different hardware platforms (e.g. the Sphero, the Arduino, etc.). In this article, we'll focus on getting Artoo up and running and check out a few different examples of Artoo in action using the Arduino and a standard keyboard.

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