scripting_inputSideComplete
Well it’s not completely true, the bulk of it is finished but if I get time there will be some adjustment later on. For now it is done.
I continued to pursue the live link from the dsLib, but after a couple of emails from the man himself, it is apparent that there are a few technical problems that I am unable to overcome. So taking that into account, I am now going for a semi-live link.
The code for the arduino circuit has been updated to allow for a better delay time between sensor reads. This script is written in arduino/C++, but as it is a fairly simple and well documented operation is was quite easy to get it working properly. Unfortunately the arduino language doesn’t support export to a text based file natively (to my knowledge), so I have used processing as an in between interface for this task.
The processing script (also based on C++) establishes a connection with the serial port, reads the data flowing through it and when it has received 40 sets of data, dumps it to a csv text file that can be read by rhino. This script will hopefully evolve a little more to create multiple csv files, allowing for rhino to bed fed data in a stream like manner. At the moment it will overwrite the file each time.
The final script I have been working on is the beginnings of the rhino side of things. Presently I have created an endless loop that prints the rhino build information continuously until the snap control is turned on. It create a graceful way for the loop to end. This is going to be built upon to allow rhino to read the csv files and do something with it. At this stage I am aiming for rhino to create a series of objects and ‘animate’ them based on the input data.
Hopefully all goes well.
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