Nodebox

08May08

Today, I started experimenting with Nodebox–an easy way to generate visuals using Python scripts (for free!). It is pretty friendly, but without optimizing your code, visuals can take some time to generate on my Macbook.
Here is a flower I generated using the MathSculpture.py and OrganicBall.py examples included with the app.

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Serial I/O in Cocoa

08May08

For those of you who are interested in building Cocoa apps that use Serial I/O (for example, to log data from an Arduino) here is the relevant reference from Apple:

SerialPortSample

and here is an implementation under BSD license that could easily be adapted to your own projects from Harmless Cocoa:

AMSerialPort

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