Fiddling With Phidgets
- 1. Fiddling with Phidgets Connecting to hardware
- 2. Who Am I? StevenPeeters Unit manager / Instructor / consultant at multimediacollegeTM • Adobe Flex, AIR, Flash Catalyst & ColdFusion Certified Instructor • Adobe Community Professional • ColdFusion User Group Manager • 12+ years of development experience • Flex & AIR since 2004 • Author for Friends of ED Email: steven@multimediacollege.be LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stevenpeeters Twitter: @aikisteve Blog www.flexpert.be Website www.multimediacollege.be
- 3. Topics • Arduino • Phidgets •Other hardware Twitter hash tag: #fiddlingphidgets
- 4. Getting started • Yeah,how did I get started on this?
- 5. Getting started • Yeah,how did I get started on this? • College
- 6. Getting started • Yeah,how did I get started on this? • College • Prototype This
- 7. Getting started • Yeah,how did I get started on this? • College • Prototype This • Grant Skinner
- 8. Differences Boards, light sensors, Components Boards motors, displays, ... Shields: XBee, Ethernet, Thermocouple, Third party motors electrodes, sensors, ... Out of the box Ease of use Build your own stuff components Cheap, build your own Don’t worry about Advantage components making mistakes Disadvantage Build your own stuff Little bit more expensive
- 9. Differences Boards, light sensors, Components Boards motors, displays, ... Shields: XBee, Ethernet, Thermocouple, Third party motors electrodes, sensors, ... Out of the box Ease of use Build your own stuff components Cheap, build your own Don’t worry about Advantage components making mistakes Disadvantage Build your own stuff Little bit more expensive
- 10. Differences Boards, light sensors, Components Boards motors, displays, ... Shields: XBee, Ethernet, Thermocouple, Third party motors electrodes, sensors, ... Out of the box Ease of use Build your own stuff components Cheap, build your own Don’t worry about Advantage components making mistakes Disadvantage Build your own stuff Little bit more expensive
- 11. Differences Boards, light sensors, Components Boards motors, displays, ... Shields: XBee, Ethernet, Thermocouple, Third party motors electrodes, sensors, ... Out of the box Ease of use Build your own stuff components Cheap, build your own Don’t worry about Advantage components making mistakes Disadvantage Build your own stuff Little bit more expensive
- 12. Differences Boards, light sensors, Components Boards motors, displays, ... Shields: XBee, Ethernet, Thermocouple, Third party motors electrodes, sensors, ... Out of the box Ease of use Build your own stuff components Cheap, build your own Don’t worry about Advantage components making mistakes Disadvantage Build your own stuff Little bit more expensive
- 13. Differences Boards, light sensors, Components Boards motors, displays, ... Shields: XBee, Ethernet, Thermocouple, Third party motors electrodes, sensors, ... Out of the box Ease of use Build your own stuff components Cheap, build your own Don’t worry about Advantage components making mistakes Disadvantage Build your own stuff Little bit more expensive
- 14. Arduino • http://www.arduino.cc • Shields(add-ons) • Get started for only $30
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- 19. Programming Arduino • Open-source •Large community
- 20. Programming Arduino • Open-source •Large community • Lots of example available
- 21. Programming Arduino • Open-source •Large community • Lots of example available • Language based on processing
- 22. Programming Arduino • Open-source •Large community • Lots of example available • Language based on processing • extensible with C, C++, Flash...
- 23. Programming Arduino • Open-source •Large community • Lots of example available • Language based on processing • extensible with C, C++, Flash... • examples in the IDE and on http://tv.adobe.com
- 24. Programming Arduino • Connectingto Flash/Flex
- 25. Programming Arduino • Connectingto Flash/Flex • Upload Firmata program to board
- 26. Programming Arduino • Connectingto Flash/Flex • Upload Firmata program to board • SerProxy/TinkerProxy
- 27. Programming Arduino • Connectingto Flash/Flex • Upload Firmata program to board • SerProxy/TinkerProxy • AS3Glue: http://code.google.com/p/as3glue/
- 28. Programming Arduino • Connectingto Flash/Flex • Upload Firmata program to board • SerProxy/TinkerProxy • AS3Glue: http://code.google.com/p/as3glue/ • Use Arduino object methods
- 29. Arduino Example private vararduino:Arduino; private function initApp():void { arduino = new Arduino("localhost", 5331); arduino.setPinMode(13, Arduino.OUTPUT); arduino.writeDigitalPin(13, Arduino.HIGH); var value:int = arduino.getAnalogData(2); }
- 30. Phidgets • http://www.phidgets.com • Lotsof components • Get started for $77
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- 32. Phidgets Programming Languages •Flash • C# • Flex • Python • Java • MathLAB • Delphi •C • Cocoa • C++ • Visual Basic • ...
- 33. Programming Phidgets • Connectingto Flash/Flex
- 34. Programming Phidgets • Connectingto Flash/Flex • Install drivers for boards
- 35. Programming Phidgets • Connectingto Flash/Flex • Install drivers for boards • Run web service
- 36. Programming Phidgets • Connectingto Flash/Flex • Install drivers for boards • Run web service • Use Phigets21Library.swc
- 37. Phidgets Servo MotorExample private var phidgetsServo:PhidgetAdvancedServo; protected function initApp():void { phidgetsServo = new PhidgetAdvancedServo(); phidgetsServo.addEventListener(PhidgetEvent.ATTACH, onAttach); phidgetsServo.open("localhost", 5001); } private function onAttach(event:PhidgetEvent):void { phidgetsServo.setPosition(0, 120); phidgetsServo.setPosition(1, 120); phidgetsServo.setPosition(4, 120); phidgetsServo.setPosition(5, 120); }
- 38. Phidgets Interface Example privatevar phidgetsInterfaceKit:PhidgetInterfaceKit; protected function initApp():void { phidgetsInterfaceKit = new PhidgetInterfaceKit(); phidgetsInterfaceKit.addEventListener(PhidgetEvent.ATTACH, onAttach); phidgetsInterfaceKit.addEventListener(PhidgetDataEvent.SENSOR_CHANGE, onSensorChange); phidgetsInterfaceKit.open("localhost", 5001); } private function onInterfaceAttach(event:PhidgetEvent):void { phidgetsInterfaceKit.setOutputState(0, true); phidgetsInterfaceKit.setOutputState(1, false); } private function onSensorChange(event:PhidgetDataEvent):void { trace("sensor value = " + Number(event.Data)); }
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- 41. The only limitis your imagination
- 42. The only limitis your imagination
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- 44. Thank you Twitter: @aikisteve Email: steven@multimediacollege.be Personal site: www.flexpert.be