Week 8 - Journal

For this week's assignment i used 3 types of designing/writing code methods.

1) Arduino code.
A- Opened week 6 assignment code.
B- Did some checking by compiling and uploading as it is.
C- After that added new Serial communication codes for processing to read and receive. i wrote this with the help of the tutorials and placed it on top of void loop so that i control 2 modes together manual and GUI . The addition was as follow:
if (Serial.available()) {

char x = Serial.read();

if (x == '0') {

Serial.println("forward");

lcd.print("Moving forward");

digitalWrite(fpin, HIGH);

delay(500);

}

if (x == '1') {

Serial.println("backwards");

lcd.println("Moving backwards");

digitalWrite(bpin, HIGH);

delay(500);

}

}
D- Compiled and then uploaded it on Arduino UNO board.

Note: after every step i used to check by compiling and uploading on my Arduino UNO board to check whether the code is correct or not.
also while writing code i was cautious enough not to make any silly mistake like { and ; but still whenever any error came up i rechecked that error line and corrected it.

2) Processing IDE code:
1- Downloaded and Installed according to the video tutorial.
2- By the help of other videos and "Controlp5" library (which i had to install also) i was able to write it easily.
3- Copy pasted codes related to the text label from library, also 2 button codes.
4- Edited in every code position and size according to my need like :
Under void setup()
Text label : positioned (80, 40) , yellow color text, font Georgia, font size 20 and wrote in it "The motor is moving: "
2 buttons: Forward and Backward were written on the button to indicate that the DC Motor direction is either Forward or Backward. I had set the position (100,100) (230, 100) so that they are equally aligned on a row, also size of the button for both according to the text size (120,45) and (130, 45) respectively. had to add .setBroadcast command so that it doesn't activate only once i needed it like every time so that's why it used.
5- As for the Serial communication i inserted Serial myport above void setup and also set the board rate and port for communication , i found out that i had to use (0) as port communication for my laptop which enabled me to serial communicate between both IDEs.
6- As for void draw function i used to write the code with the help of video tutorials which had explained each code , so that why i will not repeat it here. The code is as shown in pictures.
7-Clicked on RUN which is located left top corner to open the communication between them.
8- As i click on any buttons , its send 1 or 0 which navigates the Arduino to direct the motor accordingly.
9-As in the assignment of week 6 LCD was used to display the direction of the DC Motor , i presented that results in the Text box after the label above.