Should have been posted 16 Feb 2016

Using the Arduino Uno and following the tutorials by “Programming Electronics Academy” we have been able to build simple circuits. Although these test might be really basic and boring to people, they have helped us understand the code and possibilities we have with the Arduino.

These are the tutorials:

And this is what our circuits looked like

*insert image* 

 

The next test will be to use the Arduino with the paint. One of the tutorials I want to follow is this one:

http://www.bareconductive.com/news/workshop-sensing-with-arduino-and-electric-paint/

 

Bare Conductive makes creative electronic tools for any designer, engineer or aspiring maker.

Electric Paint is an electrically conductive paint that makes it possible to draw a circuit, cold solder a component or turn any surface into a sensor. The Touch Board is a piece of hardware that can transform Electric Paint sensor data into sound, light or data in the cloud. Our range of kits provide users with context and focused project outcomes for these future-facing platforms, regardless of experience level.

 

http://www.bareconductive.com/

Should have been posted 02 Feb 2016

Although our first test with processing worked effectively with and without the paint, the next two didn’t seem to be able to run processing with the Arduino board.

we think this could be down to issues with the serial port. Processing isn’t registering the Arduino because we cant figure out ho to find out what serial port the Arduino is. This is something we are working on though, and is currently where we are up to in our experiments. 

 

 NEXT STEPS

1. Work out the problem with processing and the serial port; why can’t it connect??
2. Develop the experiments
3. Figure out how to create X and Y readings in Arduino

For this one, we wanted to try create a sketch again in processing and arduino than ran in Java. To do this we had to do it in different steps.

 

Step 1

First we had to set up the sketch in processing.

After this we could begin to draw in Java using our mouse. From using the code we had, this created a black background with a green thick line.

 

By changing some basic code, we could personalise the sketch to have the appearance we wanted. To make it look like a classic etch e sketch, we changed the background to white, the pen to black, and made the line thinner.

 

 

Step 2

In the next step we had to add a button to control the drawing. To do this we had to build an Arduino circuit that included a tactile button.

 

We then had to build the code in Arduino and upload it. We then had to test out that this was working the way it needed to between the circuit and the code. To do this we ran the code and what we got was a continuous line of data from the arduino. When the button was pressed you can see the data from from 1 to 0.

 

**VIDEO TO BE UPLOADED**

 

 

Once this was done and tested, we then moved on to coding the processing. This code was given to us, and therefore we didn’t have to figure it out ourselves.
HOWEVER, as like the last experiment, we could figure out hoe to get the processing code to link to the Arduino.

 

This is still be tested now however, and is a work in progress. 

 

http://codasign.com/tutorials/etch-a-sketch-project/