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Arduino Tutorial 06: Processing

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Welcome to the sixth Arduino Tutorial from our Arduino Tutorial Series. In this tutorial we will learn how
to connect Arduino to Processing and how are they communicatng using the Serial Port. Also we will make
an example where we will use the Processing IDE to send commands to the Arduino Board and vice-verse.

This is a Step by Step Video Tutorial which is easy to be followed. Also, below the video you can nd
what Parts do we need for this tutorial and the Source Codes of the Examples in the video.

Arduino Tutorial 06: Processing

Components needed for this Arduino Tutorial

You can get the components from any of the sites below:

Arduino Board……………………… Amazon / Banggood / ICStation

Push Button  ……………………….. Amazon / Banggood / ICStation

LED………………………………………. Amazon / Banggood / ICStation

220 Ohm Resistor………………… Amazon / Banggood / ICStation

Breadboard and Jump Wires… Amazon / Banggood / ICStation

Circuit Schematic

Arduino Source Code

1. int led = 13;

2. int button = 12;
3.
4. void setup() {
5. pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
6. pinMode(button, INPUT);
7. Serial.begin(9600);
8. }
9.
10. void loop(){
11. if(Serial.available() > 0) {
12. char ledState = Serial.read();
13. if(ledState == '1'){
14. digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
15. }
16. if(ledState == '0'){
17. digitalWrite(led, LOW);
18. }
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20. int buttonState = digitalRead(button);
21. if ( buttonState == HIGH){
22. Serial.println("Button is pressed");
23. delay(500);
24. }
25. }

Processing Source Code

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1. import processing.serial.*;
2.
1 3. Serial myPort;
4. String myText="";
5.
1
6. void setup(){
7. size(300, 300);
8. myPort = new Serial(this, "COM4", 9600);
9. myPort.bufferUntil('n'); L AT E S T
10. }
11. void serialEvent (Serial myPort){
12. myText = myPort.readStringUntil('n');
13. }
14.
15. void draw(){
16. background(0,0,0);
17. text(myText, 120, 120);

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18. myText="";
19.
20. if(mousePressed && (mouseButton == LEFT)){ 555 TIMER IC – WORKING PRINCIPLE, BLOCK
21. myPort.write('1');
22. }
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23. if (mousePressed && (mouseButton == RIGHT)){  Dejan Nedelkovski
24. myPort.write('0');
25. }
26. }

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12 RESPONSES  Dejan Nedelkovski

saif alabri December 6, 2015

F O L LO W M E !
What is my port in Mac?

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Dejan Nedelkovski December 7, 2015

It should be something like /dev/cu.usbserial-1B1 for a USB board.

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martin February 21, 2016

when i press run nothing happens ,i am running processing 3.0.2 on a windows 64 bit D I Y P R O J E C T BY C R E AT I V I T Y H E R O
machine.
all code looks okay,please help

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Dejan Nedelkovski February 22, 2016

Do you get any error message?

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harry March 2, 2016

The Circuit Schematic picture is not right ground from components is not t to the
ground line!

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Dejan Nedelkovski March 3, 2016

Yea it has a little error, but it’s intuitive because the lines for the
ground are black, so you can’t miss them.

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Alexandros - Athens March 6, 2016

Good Work
its very helpful to me
Thank You

Alexandros

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Dejan Nedelkovski March 7, 2016

Thanks! Nice to hear that!

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Anggi April 29, 2016

can i use it with arduino uno ?

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Dejan Nedelkovski May 2, 2016

Sure you can.

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Estelle G October 12, 2016

I’m trying to get the wiring correct. I’m following the picture you have up here, and the
coding works. There’s no errors, but nothing happens to the LED when I click or press the
button. In your video you have two resistors? but in the picture there’s only one
resistors. I I can’t see the video to clearly with wiring at an angle. Can you help me?
Maybe put another picture of wiring.

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Dejan Nedelkovski October 14, 2016

One of the resistors is for the button and the second one is for the
LED (the one missing on the circuit schematics). Please doubly check
your connections. Also check whether you are getting any data on the
Arduino serial monitor before sending it to Processing (whether the
button is working).

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