I’ve been working like mad for last couple of weeks to get the ‘drawingBreath’ software going. Main issues:
- working with the sense-os API, more specificly formatting the string to be send to and retrieved from the server
- getting the custom software to work on the various PCs
- making the software work for five sensors in stead of one
From the above you can tell that I’m just an artist struggling to program without proper education. But I have learned a lot again especially about JSON in Java and iterations. And was happy I finished my two Java courses, at least now I had a good idea of what I was doing. The software can now do the following:
- Login to the sense-os platform and get a session id
- List all the ids of the 5 sensors
- Read data from the serial port
- Format (JSON) and send that data with a time stamp
- Retrieve the data from all 5 sensors
- Calibrate all 5 sensors
- Make a drawing for every sensor
- Make sounds for every sensor
- The different tasks are all conducted by separate timers
I only want to fine tune the drawing and the speed of the drawing but for the most part it’s finished(!).
I’ve conducted some test sessions with a smaller group but yesterday evening was the first time there was four of us. It went surprisingly well. No problems with the server, it was a bit unreliable lately. And the visual and audio results were promising:
