{"id":2222,"date":"2022-02-07T23:19:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2022-02-07T23:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T04:19:38","slug":"making-an-open-window-more-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"Making An Open Window More Accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making An Open Window More Accessible<\/span><\/h2>\n

Description:<\/h3>\n

The idea behind these two sketches is to have the ability to open a window via a slider on some interface. In place of a fully working window opening mechanism is a motor with an encoder wired up to an Arduino. This Arduino then uses serial communication to relay its current position back to a p5.js sketch and retrieve its goal position from that sketch as well. The goal position is determined by an on screen slider that moves around then the user clicks and drags the slider.<\/p>\n

While I was able to get the motor moving to a specific degree based off of serial input through the Arduino serial command, I was not able to get the p5 sketch to communicate in such a way that the Arduino could read it and then interpret it into an actionable item. I was also not able to send data from the Arduino to the p5 sketch but instead was only able to communicate with the p5 serial application shown in the demo below. Despite all this non-functional code, however, I was able to code a working slider into the p5 sketch and convert the x position of the slider into a percent of 100 as it is dragged across the screen.<\/p>\n

Demo:<\/h3>\n
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