Happy Halloween! My housemates and I fulfilled a long-term dream of mine to create a completely pitch-black maze. It wasn’t meant to be inherently scary — no ghouls jumping out at you. Just dark and alone. Some could find it peaceful. I found it a to be a rush, scary yet intriguing. I framed the maze with this poem by Dana Gioia which touches on this … Continue reading Maze without a Minotaur
So I already talked about how to read strings from the serial port, but I didn’t talk about how to interpret these strings to perform actions. A pretty standard and useful technique is to have commands with a character-integer structure, in which a common command might be ‘r255’. ‘r’ is a pointer for the type of command, say configuring a red LED, and then ‘255’ … Continue reading Arduino String to Integer
Prelude: I’m not a coder or computer science whiz, so my forays into programming are fraught with internet searches of how to do this or that and reading and rereading references. I am certainly no expert. Something I really wanted to do with my arduino was send it commands through the serial port– e.g. I wanted to be able to type ‘r50’ into the serial … Continue reading Controlling Arduinos through the Serial Port
Like Math, But Louder 