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Chapter 5. Interactive Painting

IN THIS CHAPTER

What You’ll Learn

Tools and Parts

Detecting Motion Using Ultrasonic Sensors

Installing Python

Hello World in Python

Communicating over the Serial Port

Displaying a Picture

Scaling an Image to Full Screen

Changing Images with Button Control

Gesture-Controlled Painting in Full Screen

Animating the Sliding Image

Connecting Arduino with Processing

Processing Code for the Painting

The Finished Painting

Creating an Enclosure

Building a Frame

You wave your hand in front of a painting, and a new image slides in. As this chapter explains, this kind of “interactive painting” is made possible by sensors that control computer programs. In this project, you will ...

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