Using Amarino to connect Arduino to the Internet and to Send text messages

[Thomas Everth]

Amarino seems to be great for communicating downstream from the Andriod side to the Arduino side. I.e. sharing sensor data and even receiving text messages to control things on the Arduino side.

But what about allowing the Arduino environment to communicate trough the phone with the outside world?

Has anybody thought of making a Send Text interface that would allow the Arduino to send a text?

Has anybody thought of making HTTP services available to the Android side through Amarino? I.e. I would like to make HTTP Get and HTTP Post calls from within my Arduino code to the outside world.

Context: For a school project with students I am working on an autonomous model boat. I could stay within the Arduino world and use Arduino sensor and GSM/GPS shields, or, I could integrate an Android phone and use its sensors and communication capabilities.

The later might be preferable but I do not want to have to hack an Android app to do this. I would hope that Amarino was extended to include a send text and HTTP services interface.

So if anybody has some info on this or made something like that, I would be very interested.

[Thomas Everth]

Of cause I mean to say "Has anybody thought of making HTTP services available to the Arduino side through Amarino? I.e. I would like to make HTTP Get and HTTP Post calls from within my Arduino code to the outside world."