OOPic

<h2 id="architecture">Architecture</h2>
<p>The OOPic firmware defines numerous built-in "objects," which can provide custom methods and properties. The objects may be wrappers for hardware, such as an external infrared sensor or a built-in LED, or logic helpers, such as dividers or logic gates.
</p><p>The OOPic also makes use of "virtual circuits," where the programmer can create links between object properties.
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<h2 id="example-program">Example program</h2>
<p>The following is an example piece of code written in the BASIC syntax, which links a built-in clock that cycles every 1 Hz to an LED.
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' The LED is defined as a single I/O line
Dim Red As New oDio1

' Here we create a virtual wire. Wires are
' used to link output or flag values to
' input values.
Dim W As New oWire

' All OOPic programs need to define a "main" sub-routine.
' This is what will be run when the OOPic is turned on.
Sub Main()
  ' Here we specify the pin number for the I/O line.
  ' The onboard red LED is on pin 7.
  Red.IOLine = 7

' The LED can also be used for a button, so we need
  ' to specify whether we wish to read from or write to
  ' the pin.
  ' (cvOutput is a constant value)
  Red.Direction = cvOutput

' Now we can set up the wire link!
  ' For the wire's input, we wish to use the built-in
  ' 1Hz timer.
  W.Input.Link(OOPic.Hz1)

' Now we send the output of the wire to the LED.
  ' Note that we actually send it to the "Value"
  ' property of the LED, as this is what determines
  ' whether the LED is lit.
  W.Output.Link(Red.Value)

' All that's left to do is to tell the wire to
  ' operate, and the OOPic will do the rest!
  ' (cvTrue is a constant value)
  W.Operate = cvTrue

End Sub

<p>This virtual circuit behaviour gives the programmer considerable control and flexibility, and allows for better reaction to real-time behaviours thanks to "Events". The OOPic actually spends the majority of its time updating the virtual circuits, compared to looping through a user's code, so it's in the programmers best interest to use virtual circuits over traditional programming techniques as often as possible.
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<h2 id="other-meanings">Other meanings</h2>
<p>OOPIC also refers to Object Oriented Particle In Cell which is an object-oriented implementation, written at Berkeley, of a specific method of plasma physics simulation known as <a href="/facts/Particle-in-cell/EF4cFzg0">particle in cell</a>.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Arduino/Ah1eKzyS">Arduino</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/BASIC_Stamp/2sGz0C8b">BASIC Stamp</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/PICAXE/rFHhGXGn">PICAXE</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19991012123909/http://oopic.com/">"OOPic (tm): The "Hardware Object""</a>. Archived from <a href="http://www.oopic.com/">the original</a> on October 12, 1999. Retrieved August 2, 2004.—The site made by the company that sells the OOPic.</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.today/20130209200423/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oopic">The OOPic Yahoo group</a>—This is where most discussion takes place about the OOPic. - Obsolete</li>
<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/group/oopic_micro">The OOPic Google group</a>—This is the new discussion / user support group for the ooPic. As of September 2008</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060803052155/http://ptsg.eecs.berkeley.edu/">The PTSG group</a>—This is the website of Berkeley's Plasma Theory and Simulation Group, the authors of the OOPIC plasma simulation code.</li></ul>

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