Hello everyone. Its been a while since my last post. Sorry to those who were looking forward to new post over the past few months.
Today, I will be sharing with you an interesting Arduino based project where I use the Windows Forms App(.NET framework) to control some basic Arduino components. For those unfamiliar with this, Windows Forms is a UI framework for building Windows desktop apps. It provides one of the most productive ways to create desktop apps based on the visual designer provided in Visual Studio.
Functionality such as drag-and-drop placement of visual controls makes it easy to build desktop apps. You can learn more about that here.
Serial communication can also be established in the app design process hence making it easier and faster to talk to the Arduino over a specified COM PORT.
Four LEDs of varying colors(Red, Green, Blue, Yellow) and a Liquid Crystal Display were used. Each button used in the app has a specific values it sends over the COM PORT whenever it is clicked on. The Arduino script receives the data and decodes it to tell the component specified in the data what to do.
So the instructions were in the form "$LEDRON" or "$LEDROF", where the $ signals the Arduino to read the incoming string, the "LED" shows that we want to control an LED, the "R" represents a Red LED and "ON" / "OF" are for turning on the LED On and Off respectively.
Below is the Project Video



_ztBMuBhMHo.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=48&h=48&fit=fill&bg=ffffff)












Comments