Hi everyone,
I came across this tutorial: http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Laser-Show-With-Real-Galvos/
The goal here is to project with laser scanners (galvo's) whatever you put in a sketch and send to the Arduino.
However, what I want to do, is to use Processing as a tool to indirectly sent 2D shapes to the Arduino, in order to get them laser projected.
The setup would be: a few sensors(both digital and analog)->the value of the sensors is read by the Arduino and sent to the computer->the values are used in Processing to create or modify different shapes (circles, hexagons, squares)->the shapes are sent back to the Arduino in order to get them projected by the laser scanners. All of this would be done with an Arduino Mega.
I contacted the OP of the Instructables post and asked him his opinion, but he doubted if the communication via serial would work and if the mega would have enough SRAM to complete the job.
Anyone got an idea that would make this work?