Supporting Software

In our Maverick Machines project we made use of Max/MSP, which is a graphical development environment. It helped us to progress recorded data. The sensor's (microphone) signal/data was taken to control a series of lights.

Unfortunately, Max/MSP is not an open-source software and quite expensive. Therefore, I am looking for alternative programs.

Processing, as a Arduino's sister project, seems to be another possibility to create similar work flows. A wide range of examples can be found under this link:

http://processing.org/learning/basics/index.html

Since Processing is a designed to be used within a visual context, most examples found use the computer screen as output. Since for the first assignment, I was not going to use a computer screen to support my project, but wanted to use the Arduino board externally, the use of processing may be limited.

Anyway, despite the choice of all these programs, it should not be forgotten that Arduino software already offers many possibilities.

To memorize just a few of them, we repeated some of the basic examples. We managed to make LEDs blink, used a switch to control LEDs, made a ping sensor work...