This video shows a proof of concept of controlling a light attached to a wireless homecontrol switch from Unity. A trigger in Unity sends an OSC message to an arduino board with ethernetshield. The arduino then sends a signal using an rf-transmitter to the homecontrol switch.

So I while ago I did some experimenting with the LicoControl shield.
I ended up building a simple c# app for my win7 media center to control it.

Yesterday I added a socket server that acts as a proxy. So now I’m able to send the control messages from any tcp client.
I made a small flashcs5 iphone-app that does just this. (way faster then building an Objective-C equivalent).

next time I’ll build a proper Objective C app and maybe I’ll try to set up the arduino with an ethernetshield and program the server right into the arduino using mDNS (bonjour) services.

I did a small openframeworks experiment today.
I was building a diy remote for my canon 400d, which is really easy to make.
I then thought; hey why not connect it to my mac through an arduino.
I took the example from the ardx kit :  circuit 11 using a simple a 5v relay.
removed the 5v from the COM pin (see pdf) on the relay and attached the ground line coming from the camera.
and attached the shutter line to the NO-pin (see pdf).

I the wrote a simple sketch in Arduino:
Waiting for the character s on the serial-in and then setting pin 2 to HIGH for 1250 milliseconds, enough for the camera to focus
even when using the flash.

int outPin =  2;

void setup(){
Serial.begin(57600);
pinMode(outPin, OUTPUT);
}

void loop(){
checkSerialInput();
}

void checkSerialInput(){
if (Serial.available() > 0) {
// get incoming character:
char serialChar = Serial.read();

if (serialChar == 's'){
//shutter
digitalWrite(outPin, HIGH);
delay(1250);
digitalWrite(outPin, LOW);
}
}
}

I then figured that it would be nice if I could take the picture if I smiled at the camera.
Since I can’t loop the image from the eos 400d back into my mac, I used the webcam instead.

I found that someone else had already done “smile” recognition in openframeworks using opencv.
I just needed to add some lines to set up the arduino and write an ‘s’ to the serial port. And presto.
Smiling at the webcam took my picture.

Here’s the xcode project:
SmileAndClick

Whoohoo

Raw microphone access in Air 2.0

http://theflashblog.com/?p=1426