Alias » teaching http://www.proalias.com Soon I will be invincible Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:21:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Flash Arduino workshop http://www.proalias.com/2008/05/06/flash-arduino-workshop-2/ http://www.proalias.com/2008/05/06/flash-arduino-workshop-2/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 13:13:48 +0000 Alias http://www.proalias.com/newBlog/2008/05/06/flash-arduino-workshop-2/ This is a video from the Flash / Arduino workshop I led for tinker.it last month. This is me demoing my flash based RFID reader – the hardware drivers are all written in flash, and should be totally platform independent. I really like the idea of writing hardware drivers in Flash, and it’s something I plan on exploring further over the coming months. Obviously there are limitations as to what can realistically be achieved, but I think it’s a lot more satisfying to be able to, say, interface directly with a wiimote via a hardware connection and a serial port than using something like glovePIE. Also, it opens up all kinds of new creative areas which were previously the domain of the hardcore assembly level coder.

Anyway, here’s the video. Basically, flash is controlling the hardware, then reading back the 4 byte unique ID of the standard, publicly available Oyster card, and rendering it as a colour and rotation value. I think this has a lot of potential for further development and will be working on other ways to do cool stuff with this technology.

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