Control The Arduino Board With Windows 10 PC or Mobile

Kumaresh Rajalingam

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Windows 10 IoTArduino BoardWindows Virtual Shield

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Kumaresh Rajalingam10y ago
Thank u Ankur
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Kumaresh Rajalingam10y ago
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Introduction

In this article, I'll show you how to control the Arduino board with Windows 10 PC or Mobile using Windows Virtual Shield for Arduino. This app was developed by the Microsoft Corporation and you can get it from the Windows Store.

Requirements

Hardware

Arduino Uno
Bluetooth Module HC-05
Windows 10
Windows Virtual Shield for Arduino - Get the app

Software

Arduino IDE 1.6 or better
ArduinoJson library
Arduino JSON library - GitHub
VS2015

The following sensors are used to control directly from Arduino Wiring,

Sensors

Accelerometer
Compass
Geolocator (GPS)
Gyrometer
Light Sensor
Orientation

Capabilities

Camera
Device info (name, date/time/timezone, os)
Email (initiation)
Microphone
Notifications (Tile/Toast)
Screen (Text, Images, Audio/Video, Rectangles, Buttons, Touchscreen)
Sms (initiation)
Speech to Text and Speech Recognition
can receive table data from previous web search
Vibration
Web (Get and Post with result parsing)
XPath
JSON
Simple text
Regular expressions
Table iteration (keys/values saved)

Connection

Setup the Arduino IDE 1.6 or better.
Get the Arduino JSON library (Click here) download the zip. and Add it to the Arduino | Sketch, then Include library, Add.Zip library.
In the Arduino IDE Sketch, Include library, then Manage Library, A library manager will open in that search box you can type windows virtual shield for Arduino and click install button the library will be added to the Arduino IDE.

Bluetooth

RX pin to TX
TX pin to RX
Vcc to 5v
Gnd to Gnd

Code: Hello Virtual Shield

#include <ArduinoJson.h>
#include <VirtualShield.h>
#include <Text.h>
VirtualShield shield; // identify the shield
Text screen = Text(shield); // connect the screen
void setup()
{
shield.begin(9600); // begin communication
screen.clear(); // clear the screen
screen.print("Hello \n my Virtual Shields for Arduino");
}

Explanation

Add the libraries first i.e.

#include <ArduinoJson.h>
#include <VirtualShield.h>
#include <Text.h>

VirtualShield is like a function used to find the shield using BT communication.
The Text screen is used to connect the screen to display the text.
The setup() is one type of the built-in function.
shield.begin() in your setup() is called the baud rate and it is mainly used for the communication purpose.
screen.clear() clears the screen.

Output