Gabriella Perry
Interface and Application Programming
"write an application that interfaces a user with an input &/or output device that you made"
For interface and application week I designed a basic interface in html to communicate via wifi with my ESP32 Board. This interface is designed to be an alternative to the button board I have made for my final project. The button board and interface can drive the motor forward and backward, moving the latch hooks in the knitting machine.
I used the board I previously designed in networking week for this assignment. The schematic documents and information for the board can be found here.
The website "Random Nerd Tutorials" has a lot of helpful documentation for ESP32 projects. I followed this tutorial to create an html interface to send commands to my board. The tutorial code turns on and off an LED, but I modified it to spin my stepper motor forward and backward. You can see it working in the video below!
"compare as many tool options as possible"
For the group assignment, I mostly spent time running through different pages on the how to make "Interface and Application Programming" page. I have written web pages/ applications using HTML, Javascript, and processing. I enjoy processing out of those languages because it feels more playful overall. I would have written a processing interface for this week, but instead, I focused on completing my final project.