For our final tutorial on Arduino & Processing software/hardware, we had to pick our own tutorial from the list of examples in the Communication section of the built-in Arduino software examples. One of my previous tutorials, the PhysicalPixel, was also from this list. I was really interested in 2 of the examples that were listed.
At first I decided to pick the 'Dimmer' tutorial, where you can control the brightness of an LED light using the movement of your mouse. I found this control interesting so I thought I would give it a go. Looking at the hardware required I seemed to have everything I needed. Although as I looked at the diagram, I became incredibly confused. I couldn't figure out where it was asking me to insert or connect to the LED light. In both diagrams I tried understanding the placements, however it was a no-go. So I moved on to trying the 'Graph' tutorial.
When I tried the Graph tutorial, I noticed that the hardware required was something called an Analog Sensor, (Potentiometer, Photocell, FSR, etc). I assumed from the diagram it meant the F-M Cable that we were supplied with. I tried to connect it up but to no avail.
Once I tried moving on to another tutorial I started to notice that they were all looking for an 'Analog Sensor'. Which is something that I either didn't have, or something that I did have, was under a different name, and couldn't figure out how to connect it.
The only example that didn't require one was the 'Serial Event' tutorial. So I spent a good while trying to figure that one out, but I couldn't get it to work.
No video result this time as I was unable to get any reaction or completion.
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