flash-arduino-node-serial-playback aka FANS

Standalone system for Flash playback control with an Arduino Uno connected to USB communicating via Serial over a NodeJS Socket Server

Work in progress. If you want to get up and running shoot me a message on Twitter. My username is @motionharvest. I don't have a diagram drawn yet, and my Arduino code is little messy because I adapted it from another project of mine and didn't remove the stuff that doesn't need to be there for this project. There are buttons on PIN 2 and 4. I work on a 13" Macbook Pro on OSX 10.11.2 (El Capitan). I have it all working here. Let me know if you get stuck and I'll try to help out.

Installation

1. Install NodeJS if you don't have it. You can get it here.

2. Install Arduino IDE. You can get it here

3. From the repo directory run npm install in terminal.

4. Follow this wiring diagram. (Sorry, don't have this made yet)

5. Open Arduino/fans-2-button-sketch/fans-2-button-sketch.ino and upload it to your Arduino

6. Open public/fans-main.fla in Flash and make a timeline based animation.

7. From the repo directory run node host. Your terminal will look something like

    FANS Socket server online. (10.0.0.6:8080).
    FANS Communication Server online. (10.0.0.6:8124).
    Launching browser.
    COMM Port Scan - Quit server and run again $ node host /dev/modemxxx
    /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port
    /dev/cu.usbmodem1411
    Identified roles[presentation]
   

8. Quit the app.

9. From the repo directory run node host /dev/cu.usbmodem1411 where cu.usbmodem1411 is your arduino's ID. Mine shows up as cu.usbmodem1411 so my guess is yours will be similar.

The browser will automatically open and your flash file will be served. Pressing button 1 will play your timeline. Pressing button 2 doesn't do anything inside Flash yet, but the command is sent through.

Sure it's a lot of work, but when you're done you've got an Arduino communicating with Flash via a NodeJS Socket server and a serial monitor. #winning