Process and Production |
A collective blog between Anthony Stephenson, Matthew Whitewood, Harriet Carr and John Walker. We are all 2nd Year Multimedia Students based at Huddersfield University. This blog is to document our progress with the Arduino board and Processing!! |
This week we started to consider the Arduino board and how it can be used to create new input devices.
Using a resistor, we were able to change the current flowing through the circuit, which in turn can be read by the Arduino board as a numerical value.By turning the resistor, we are able to directly affect the amount of power flowing through and therefore change the value. The code we created for the board was then “installed” so we could move across to Processing.
In Processing, we used the value that was being recorded by the Arduino board and used it to change the size of an Ellipse. As we turned the resistor, the ellipse got bigger/smaller in real time.
Although it was simple, it is a great starting point in getting us to think about new ways of input (as opposed to a keyboard and mouse)
