This is one of Wayne's many electronics projects.

Configurator

Introduction

Configurator is a program that is used to configure modules that make up an electronic project. At this point in main window looks as follows:

• The left window is a "database" of available modules. Currently modules can be selected by Vendors, Categories, or by Buses. Currently, the Vendors section is open with modules from "adafruit.com", "sainsmart.com", and "seedstudio.com" being shown. The LCD1602 was copied over to the the Project under "LCD_Duino" and renamed to "lcd".
• The center window is the "Project" window that shows the project as nested tree of interconnected modules. This project is hosted by Raspbery Pi computer, that has a RasPi bridge that connects between the Raspberry Pi GPIO connector and a MakerBus. There are 4 modules plugged into the MakerBus -- LCD_Duino, Grove_Duino, TinkerKit_Duino, and Gadget_Duino. All of the modules are Arduino^™ compatible board into which shield can be plugge in MakerBus. The LCD_Duino has an LCD shield plugged into it and the Grove_Duino has a Grove shield plugged into it. All names in the project tree names are specified by the project designer.
• The right window is called the module window and it allows the Configurator to perform remote procedure calls and examine registers on the selected module. The currently selected module is highlighted in the middle window. The [Get], [Set], and [Call] buttons are used to directly access the module. Currently, the user has just sent the letter '@' to the LCD module via the character_send() remote procedure call.

The [Generate] button is used to generate code for the various modules. For the example above, selecting one of "LCD_Duino", "Grove_Duino", "TinkerKit_Duino", or "Gadget_Duino" and clicking on the [Generate] button will generate an Arduino^™ .ino source file that can be compiled and downloaded to appropriate module. In addition, clicking on the [Generate] button when "RasPi" is selected, will generate a Python module that provides interfaces to all of the modules on the the MakerBus. In addition, this Python module can be executed as a stand-alone program and will generate a GUI program (using Python Tkinter) that can directly access all of the registers. A first cut is shown below:

That should provide enough of an overview for now.

The source code is available via github. The know dependencies are:

• Python 2.7 (Python 2.6 should work as well).
• The appropriate idle (Python Integrated Deveolpment Environment) that comes with Python (the tree widget currently comes from idle.)
• PySerial to talk to a serial port (USB or UART.) Currently, you only need to have PySerial installed. Configurator fails gracefully if it does not successfully open /dev/ttyUSB0.

The source code documentation is being converted to Doxygen format. Doxygen version 1.8 is required since much of the documentation is done in Markdown format (which was recently added to Doxygen 1.8.)