We decided yesterday to do a flash interface on a touch screen with a little keyboard, which users can select a rss feed, or enter a string and hit upload to send it to the arduino.
that was easy, just whipped up a bg in illustrator and then popped in some components in flash.
coding was less easy.
So by 6pm i had a semi-working-but-not-working-at-all prototype. which SHOULD of worked, but didn't for some reason. So i spent today working on it more(while spore downloads, FUCK YES) and it's currently 1:10 and i have the following:
When the user hits upload, a hardcoded string of "aaabbb" is sent via a socket, routed via an external program(only way to do it) to com port 4 where the arduino takes the string and displays is as per its code.
Now i'm about to change the hardcoded string to user input from a text box. wish me luck
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Looking great. I would love to see a third type in there, maybe that does the latest posts on a newsgroup or chat on a msn conversation, twitter, IRC etc (twitter would be freaking awesome, you could twitter it and your message would pop up, great for leaving messages in the foyer, prone to abuse though).
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