Description
Most of you know Arduino and you know that controlling Arduino using a Web browser or any interfacing technique other than the Arduino software is a very complex job. In this course, we will make this simple.
I will teach you how you can write a JavaScript code and use your own browser, the one that you already have to send commands to your Arduino board, and to receive commands from your Arduino board.
So it will be two-way communication and we won’t use any Wi-Fi module or other modules. We will just use the Arduino board, USB cable, and our browser with a few lines of codes.
I will teach you something that will give your Arduino board superpower, the ability to combine Arduino or physical computing with Browser Technologies can give designers and anyone superpower to prototype awesome experience faster. Not only faster but also easier and cheaper.
In the past, Arduino was usually connected to processing software. Which is a very well known software and we have some courses explaining how to interface Arduino and processing together to generate interactive art products or services, while this is still a widely used way to connect Arduino to a computer, connecting to a browser can give a wider range of opportunity and requires less installation.
In the Past Connecting Arduino to a browser was a complex job. You had to create web sockets and a server on the device. But now with this serial API that we will introduce in this course, you can connect to any Arduino based device from the browser with the click of a button. There is no additional installation on setup required and it’s a fast and easy method.
One huge benefit is that the software runs in the browser is easy to share and execute on various devices and operating systems.
The system should work with any Arduino that has a serial connection to the computer.