Projects

So, after I successfully made my RGB slider, I made a victory sandwich and then went out in the 110 degree weather to check the mail. It was worth the sweat because my servos came. (yay!) So I’ve been playing with them. Here is a neat tutorial I found on how to control a motor with a simple dial in TouchOSC for the iphone: Source code can be found here.

Ok, moving on to slightly more advanced stuff regarding TouchOSC. Today I copied this nifty little project that I found on youtube which outlines how to make a simple slider that controls LEDs. I highly recommend following this tutorial and typing out the code as he explains what everything does. It was really helpful for a beginner like me as it solidified some of my understanding about the relationship between processing, arduino and the touchOSP app. And yeah, I am aware that my ‘blue’ LED is in fact yellow. I didn’t have any pretty blues ones on me for this project. =P The video I follow by Harrybj17:

Several months ago I came across a couple of people who had created Delta robot models and were controlling them via the accelerometer on their phones. I thought this was a neat idea and decided to build my own charming little tripod and see what I could make it do. Today I downloaded the cool app TouchOSC for my iphone. If you don’t know what this is, it’s a rather nifty program that allows you to harness the power of your smart phone’s sensors by creating virtual buttons, sliders, and other input devices that will communicate with your arduino over your network. I am currently building up to this project by doing smaller tasks involving the OSC app and separately the delta bot. Right now I am simply getting a feel for using the OSC editor along with processing as I’m still somewhat new to programming all together. My first success…