(continued from Arduino & Flash AS3 (part 3)). Bring the NOISE! This post originally started from a conversation I had with a fellow Flash engineer who attended my past exhibition. In my last exhibition I created an Arduino based synth in which users could interact with. So in keeping with the audio spirit, I decided to show you guys how you could easily control an mp3 in Flash with the Arduino micro-controller...

(continued from Arduino & Flash AS3 (part 2)). If you have successfully uploaded a sketch to your Arduino, it’s time to configure the Serial Proxy Application. Install the Serial Proxy application. After the installation, navigate to the folder where you installed the application and open the serproxy.cfg using your text editor. Update your file with the following information : # Example configuration...

(continued from Arduino & Flash AS3 (part 1)). It’s time to test your Arduino board. Install the Arduino IDE. Unzip and place the Arduino IDE into your Applications folder. Install the FTDI serial driver for your platform. Connect your Arduino board via USB to your computer and open up the Arduino IDE. Go to Tools->Serial Port. On the Mac, choose the entry that reads /dev/tty.usbserial-XXXXXXXX. If...

At my last interactive exhibition, I was asked how would a Flash engineer get started with tinkering with the Arduino. Well, it’s fairly simple, their are a few caveats to overcome, but for the most part all you have to do is acquire the hardware and install some open source software, and oh yeah own a copy of flash or an ActionScript compiler. This post will be covered in 5 parts to help you get Flash...

I’m currently making revisions to a product designer I released in November. One of the revisions is to categorize a theme selector. Once I received the new comps from the client, I noticed they snuck in a combo box menu into their revised design. Not your ordinary flash component combo box either, but there very own stylized drop down menu. So, I started out by searching Google and looking for something...

If you read my previous post on the AS3 Lyricsfly API and my last post AS3 YouTube Chromeless API you will know that I’m creating an online Video Karaoke application for fun. FIRST and foremost I must thank Martin Legris for providing the search functionality. Martin has wrapped up the YouTube API including the parsing of its feeds. He’s even gone out of his way to develop a proxy using AMFPHP...

SWEET!, YouTube released an ActionScript 3 API for their Chromeless Player. Previously, we had to rely on wrapper libraries to bridge the gap between the ActionScript 2 chromeless player and our very own AS 3 code, in short…it was painful. Now, its extremely easy to implement your very own YouTube Player. I scripted up a very simple example for you. Well, I should say it’s a bit more involved than...

The other day I went over to my girlfriend’s brothers house for a family tree trimming. As we sat around drinking wine, streaming Somafm’s Christmas lounge, an actionscript idea popped into my head. As I listened to the unfamiliar music I was concentrating on the lyrics of each song. Now, I know the classics, but they played a few I just had never heard in my entire life. Out of curiosity I went...