Flash + Arduino
Thanks to the great guys over at tinker.it I have been on two workshops recently to learn more about physical computing, human – computer interaction and electronics. The first workshop was lead by Alex Zivanovic and Benjamin Tomlinson who gave great introductions to physical computing, Processing, Arduino, and basic electronics. The second workshop was more specific to the communication between external devices (using Arduino) and flash lead by Alias Cummins and Brock Craft.
I was proud to have one of my early flash + arduino experiments photographed and the code for the experiment should be getting posted on the tinker.it website soon as a simple example of getting flash to communicate with the Arduino board.
I do not have a video yet of an experiment I made yet (watch this space) but I do have some photographs. I found an old PC joystick in the loft which I chopped the serial plug off and soldered some prototyping wires on to for my breadboard, I then re-wired the two potentiometers that record the joysticks X and Y position and tested the buttons. Using an AS3 library Glue, SerialProxy as a http server and Flash, I was able to use the joystick to control a particle system and use the left and right buttons to cycle through different sprites that made up the particles.
