Kazu - Link
kati please click here and scroll down for documentation of this lab.
Teresa- I had some problems geting the sensors to work with processing. I am not sure what I was doing wrong, but nothing happened for me. However I was able to make the serin and serout code work that was provided in the examples. It took a few times to get everything to work because I had the serial tx and rx confused so i wasnt getting a reading on anything, but after that glitch it worked out well.
Aaron Serial Code (with a few errors)
This lab went fairly well. I was able to get serial information into the computer without a problem. Now its time to get it into processing, which is the tricky part. I will update this when that is done. I want to make a controller for a Pong style game I made in ICM last year.
Well, I plugged in the breadboard into processing and it didnt work at first. I was getting serial data, but had a few bugs in my processing code that I hat to iron out. I tried to cut a few corners I shoudn't have. In the end I managed to smooth them all out and the top paddle was being controlled by the pot. I was very pleased. It was still a bit buggy however, because I wasnt not getting a steady signal from the pot. Perhaps if I added some capicators it would smooth things out.
I also was responsible for the code for our tool project. For this project we want to transform a broom into...something. We are not quite sure what yet, but I think the most appropriate and natural application is as a digital pain brush. The rest of the group is not so enthusiastic about that idea, so I may have to give in and go for something else. I think once we learn more about motors, there will be more to do with it.
Here is a photo of the pong screen - The Green Paddle is controlled by a pot, and the other by the mouse:
Bennett - I was able to get the basics going on this lab. I had written down the really simple call and response from class, with the "guess again" and "got me" responses from the input in the serial communicator. I then went back to analog input with serial output to the computer, which I had never got going during the analog out lab. I think a better understanding of code and a little troubleshooting helped. I got it to display the values from 0-255 on the communicator. One problem I had - I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that when you cut and paste code off the website, it may change the type of chip that you are programming in Microcode studio. That thew me off, when I pasted code into a document I already had open and suddenly it wouldn't program cause it was set to the wrong chip. More in my journal section, including some code.
Viviana Espinosa - I worked on this lab together with our group devicing the speed of footsteps, and sending a message accordingly Images and initial code
Angela - Lab 5
Won - Serial Out
Christin - Lab 5: Serial Out