[Bf-committers] GSOC 2013 Arduino idea thoughts

[Trevor Tomesh]

Hi, Arnaud,

Are you referring to my proposal?

Trevor


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Arnaud Loonstra <arnaud at sphaero.org> 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
>
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