To program the Sense/Stage MiniBee you have to use the Arduino IDE and prepare it to use the firmware libraries and the hardware definitions that we have created for Sense/Stage.

Download files

• Download the Arduino IDE

• Download the Sense/Stage MiniBee files for Arduino

Install

• Install the Arduino IDE

MiniBee files

• Unpack the ssdn_minibee package

• Check what your Arduino sketchbook folder is:
  • Go to [FILE] menu and choose Preferences, the keyboard shortcut is [CTRL]+[,]
  • At the top it tells you the folder for the Sketchbook location, e.g. ~/Arduino
  • Go with your file browser to this folder
  • If there is no hardware folder there, just copy the folder ssdn_minibee/hardware to the sketchbook folder
  • If there is a hardware folder there, copy the folder ssdn_minibee/minibee to it
  • If there is no libraries folder there, just copy the folder ssdn_minibee/libraries to the sketchbook folder
  • If there is a libraries folder there, copy the folders in ssdn_minibee/libraries to it
• You should now have the following folders in your sketchbook folder:

hardware/
hardware/minibee
hardware/minibee/avr

libraries/ADXL345
libraries/BMP085
libraries/HMC58X3
libraries/LIS302DL
libraries/MBSerial
libraries/MiniBee
libraries/MiniBee_APIn
libraries/NewSoftSerial
libraries/OneWire
libraries/TMP102
libraries/XBee

NOTE: the minibee files are for version 1.6.5 and up of the Arduino IDE. If you use an older version of the Arduino IDE, you have to use a different branch of ssdn_minibee

The MiniBee Firmware examples will show up in the:

• API-mode (recommended) File -> Examples -> MiniBeeAPIn, and the MiniBee Firmware library will show up in Sketch -> Import Library… -> MiniBeeAPIn
• AT-mode: (no longer maintained) File -> Examples -> MiniBee, and the MiniBee Firmware library will show up in Sketch -> Import Library… -> MiniBee

Firmware examples

• Now start the Arduino IDE
• In the [FILE] menu, under Examples, under (Examples from Custom Libraries) you have a set of examples for the MiniBee_APIn library.
• The example minibee_F is the default version for MiniBee revision F
• The example minibee is the default version for MiniBee revision D
• customReceiving shows how to receive custom data
• customSending shows how to send custom data
• sendingPrivateData shows how to send additional (private) messages
• sendingTriggerData shows how to send trigger data messages
• BeeToBee shows how to send data from one MiniBee to another
• DS18x20_temperature shows how to read out the DS18x10 temperature sensor
• ITG3200 shows how to read out the ITG3200 sensor
• LSM9DS1 shows how to read out the LSM9DS1 sensor
• ledfades shows how to set up a system with smoothly fading LEDs
• minibeeServo shows how to control a servo motor
• minibeeNSS shows how to use the NewSoftSerial library

Choosing the board

• In the [TOOLS] menu, choose [Sense Stage MiniBee]
• The default processor is ATmega328p revB/D/F (3.3V, 12 MHz)
• Only for revision A and particular versions of revision D you need to choose a different processor.