The next phase of my project was to send the serial communication from my Arduino, over to Processing, which then would formulate a status update based on the button you pressed and send it over to Twitter. I’ve worked with several Twitter API’s in the past, so I decided to go with Twitter4J, the “J” in this case stands for Java, which works perfectly with Processing.

Bellow is an updated version of my previous Arduino coding. I plan on switching the status updating to the Processing side, instead of the Arduino side. If this where to be a real product, it would be easier to download a software update, then to have to reprogram the toy itself. I will add that to my todo list, once i get all the major Read more

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So I’ve been working on a new project and have run into a bit of an issue. I plan to send a serial message over to Processing, however it very important that I don’t send multiple values stating the same button press. Since Arduino is in a constant loop state, when i press a button using something like:
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So i finally had time to tinker around with this Simon Sez project again. Turns out there wasn’t an issue after all with my circuits, it was an issue in my code. I also did some house keeping on the code, and created a nice little diagram using Fritzing, an awesome app that was recommend to our class Read more

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I created a very simple game using Away3d and with a A* pathfinding class which is called Detour with some help from Peter Kapelyan, who helped me tweak some of my code to make it 3D friendly.  It’s only a prototype of a game which i probably won’t enhance anytime soon, so I included the source code for anyone that is interested.  If you does anything with it drop me an email so I could check it out.

The game is pretty much a maze that gets created “on the fly” (I really hate that phrase) by intersections that close off on each turn. The goal of the game is to beat the computer to the your homebase which is the space that the computer starts on (sort of like Chinese Checkers, but with one marble and maze) The first person to get to their homebase wins.  Use your arrow keys to move around.

Source View is here, so go bananas (I like that phrase).

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When character counts are critical as in building a twitter or SMS app you could use services such at tinyurl.com and bit.ly to help save text real-estate. I prefer bit.ly since it’s domain has less characters then tinyurl’s

The code is really quite simple. All that you need to do is communicate with bit.ly ‘s API and it returns the new shortened URL via its API. Check out http://bit.ly/docs for full API.

original call
http://bit.ly/api?url=URL (Example: http://bit.ly/api?url=http://twitabit.com)

bit.ly response:

http://bit.ly/2oCfqc

Seems easy enough, but the problem comes when doing this with in Flex. You will quickly see once you test on your server Flex will alert you that there is a Sandbox violation. This simply means that bit.ly does not have a crossdomain.xml file that grants you permission to receive data from them.
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