Hi, Arnaud, Are you referring to my proposal?
Trevor On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Arnaud Loonstra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just my 2 cents about the GSOC idea of having Arduino's connected to > Blender. I couldn't reply to the original thread, sorry about that. > > It would be great to have an easy to use UI for connecting the Arduino to > Blender however having a compiler inside Blender would be too much I > reckon. So it would render having an easy to use UI a bit useless if you > have to program the Arduino first. I guess the target audience would be > people who already know how to work with the Arduino or the ones willing to > master. The userbase of Arduino is huge! > > I'm really interested in having Logic Bricks for the Arduino. Arduino's > are mostly used for realtime interaction setups (imho). It's used a lot to > bridge with physical sensors. It uses the Firmwata protocol * > http://firmata.org > * http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Firmata > Perhaps that's more interesting than Arduino itself? > > Using them with the BGE makes sense, from building your own custom game > controller to connecting scientific sensors. Doing this currently in python > requires python skills, especially when doing it non blocking (threaded). > > For use inside Blender I could imagine having a film setup in which light > control is measured and/or controlled using Arduinos. This way lighting can > be controlled by Blender but also mimicked in Blender in order to get an > equal virtual and physical setup. I know this could be done using DMX and > Artnet however the Arduino opens this up for low budget setups and custom > setups. > > But thinking this through... If having a Arduino Logic Brick still > requires coding skills it doesn't make much sense. I reckon it would be far > more beneficial to have python logic bricks. In the sense of having a way > to create custom logic bricks with python just like you can with the new > Python Nodes. An Arduino Logic Brick is than easy to implement, and so is > an OSC logic brick for example. This would open up the path for more addons > for the BGE/logic bricks. If this custom logic bricks thing also takes the > trouble of threading away it would be great. > > Rg, > > Arnaud > > -- > Stichting z25.org > Concordiastraat 67A > 3551 EM Utrecht > The Netherlands > > t: +31-(0)6-41861063 > w: http://www.z25.org > tw: http://twitter.com/z25org > fb: http://fb.com/z25org > g+: http://gplus.to/z25 > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
