natalie haddad
fab academy 2012
interface and application programming
i began this section by downloading processing on the windows side and completing a few tutorials so that i could understand how to edit the code slightly to adjust the outcome. after i felt comfortable with it i plugged in the microphone input pcb board that i created a couple weeks ago and ran an example code to see if it would respond properly. the initial code:
/**
* Serial Input to Randomly Colored Lines
*
* Read data from the serial port and changes the color of a lines drawing across the screen
* the height of the lines changes relative to the values recieved from the sensor.
*
* written by Shawn Wallace
* updated / commented by Anna Kaziunas France
*/
import processing.serial.*;
Serial serialPort; // Create object from Serial class
int col = 0; //starting point for the lines on the screen
void setup() {
size(1024, 1024); //set window size
background(0); //set background color to black
stroke(255); // set stroke to white
smooth(); //smooth out the lines
// I know that the first port in the serial list on my mac
// is always my FTDI adaptor, so I open Serial.list()[0].
// On Windows machines, this generally opens COM1.
// Open whatever port is the one you're using.
println(Serial.list());
serialPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600);
}
void draw() {
//if there is data comming in from the serial port
while (serialPort.available () > 0) {
//set the variable height equal to the data comming in.
int height = serialPort.read();
//to draw rows across the screen in columns
//then wrap back to other side of the screen
col = col+1;
if (col > 1024) {
col = 0;
}
println(height); //print the values read from the serial port to the console
//if the serial values are greater than 10
if (height > 10) {
//draw a line that increases / decreases based on sensor output.
//adjusted for sensor values.
line(col, (height-125)+512, col, 512-height);
}
//EXPERIMENT WITH THE VISUALIZATION BELOW
//currently draws random strokes for the full range of color
stroke((int)random(255), (int)random(255), (int)random(255));
}
}/**
* Serial Input to Randomly Colored Lines
*
* Read data from the serial port and changes the color of a lines drawing across the screen
* the height of the lines changes relative to the values recieved from the sensor.
*
* written by Shawn Wallace
* updated / commented by Anna Kaziunas France
*/
import processing.serial.*;
Serial serialPort; // Create object from Serial class
int col = 0; //starting point for the lines on the screen
void setup() {
size(1024, 1024); //set window size
background(0); //set background color to black
stroke(255); // set stroke to white
smooth(); //smooth out the lines
// I know that the first port in the serial list on my mac
// is always my FTDI adaptor, so I open Serial.list()[0].
// On Windows machines, this generally opens COM1.
// Open whatever port is the one you're using.
println(Serial.list());
serialPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600);
}
void draw() {
//if there is data comming in from the serial port
while (serialPort.available () > 0) {
//set the variable height equal to the data comming in.
int height = serialPort.read();
//to draw rows across the screen in columns
//then wrap back to other side of the screen
col = col+1;
if (col > 1024) {
col = 0;
}
println(height); //print the values read from the serial port to the console
//if the serial values are greater than 10
if (height > 10) {
//draw a line that increases / decreases based on sensor output.
//adjusted for sensor values.
line(col, (height-125)+512, col, 512-height);
}
//EXPERIMENT WITH THE VISUALIZATION BELOW
//currently draws random strokes for the full range of color
stroke((int)random(255), (int)random(255), (int)random(255));
}
}