For this recitation, I chose the “Serial Communication” workshop. This seemed ideal because Daniel and I have some Arduino to Processing serial communication, and in order to help I wanted to brush up on it. Luckily, we mostly focused on Arduino to Processing, as many people’s projects also went in this direction.
However, I was mildly disappointed that the workshop just rehashed material that we have already learned. Although I understand that practice increases my ability to code, I feel in this instance that it was rather simple and repetitive.
By the end, we used simple inputs like buttons and potentiometers through A0 and A1 to control color, size, and movement of various things on Processing. First, we used the Arduino code in the docs for “multiple values”. In processing, we created an ellipse that we could move with the potentiometers. We then added a red square in the mouse position whenever a button was pressed.
Here is the final product (with a partner).