I set a few potentiometer’s to test using input with Processing and a video.  I also set up Processing to work with an external monitor that I got.

I still haven’t settled on the aesthetic for the facade, but I did some sketches and pulled some images I like.  I want to take a trip to Built It Green this weekend and look at that stuff.

My Processing code:

import processing.video.*;
import processing.serial.*;
import processing.opengl.*;

Movie myMovie;
Serial port;

float framePos = 0;
float videoX = 0;
float videoY = 0;

void setup() {
  size(800, 480, OPENGL);
  frame.setLocation(0, 0);
  frameRate(30);
  myMovie = new Movie(this, "bsu1.mov");
  myMovie.loop();

  println(Serial.list());
  String portName = Serial.list()[0];
  port = new Serial(this, portName, 9600);
  port.bufferUntil('\n');
}

void draw() {
  background(0);
  if (myMovie.available()) {
    myMovie.read();
  }
  image(myMovie, -videoX, -videoY);
  myMovie.jump(framePos);
}

void mousePressed() {
  println(myMovie.time());
}

public void init() {
  frame.removeNotify();
  frame.setUndecorated(true);
  frame.addNotify();
  super.init();
}

void serialEvent (Serial myPort) {
  String myString = myPort.readStringUntil('\n');
  if (myString != null) {
    //x`println(myString);
  }
  myString = trim(myString);
  int sensors[] = int(split(myString, ','));
  for (int i = 0; i < sensors.length; i++) {
    print("Sensor" + i + ": " + sensors[i] + "\t");
  }
  println();

  if (sensors.length > 2) { // wait for all sensors
    framePos = map(sensors[0], 0, 1023, 0, myMovie.duration());
    videoX = map(sensors[1], 0, 1023, 0, myMovie.width - width);
    videoY = map (sensors[2], 0, 1023, 0, myMovie.height - height);
  }
}