Articles with tag: "processing"
Arduino-Processing Serial Communication
April 6th, 2011
Over the last few weeks I’ve been messing around quite a bit with the Processing programming language. I was drawn to it initially because it is a close cousin to the Arduino language and programming environment (which is based on Processing), so naturally I wanted to find a way to combine the two in a project.
Background
What I had in mind, of course, was an outlandishly-complicated, full-screen Processing user interface, with dials and button and knobs and sliders and big maps and graphs of data readouts and a little videoport showing the view from the Kinect-based eyes of some hardy Arduino-powered robot as it trundled bravely into the caldera of a smoking volcano.
Rip and Burn Checklist — Already know your way around Processing and Arduino? Here you go.
- Download and install controlP5 GUI Library for Processing.
- Download SliderSerial_Arduino.
- Download SliderSerial_Processing.
But alas, I thought it would be better to start small — with one little graphical slider control, one Arduino, and one LED. The slider would command a brightness level for the LED, serial communication would do the talking, and pulse-width modulation (PWM) would do the legwork. In my quest for the ultimate ready-made user interface, however, I did stumble across the awesome-looking and fully-featured controlP5 GUI library for Processing.
