Hi all,
I am struggling to find an example where I can run 3js on raspberry pi or windows and use RPi’s GPIO pins to make changes on 3js. For example use joystick inputs to rotate, translate an object in 3js. I have seen an example of Arduino interfacing with Blender/python using serial comms. I was wondering if this can be done on RPi.
What I remember -from my physical computing days- is that usually the other way around of communications has received a lot more atention, that is controlling boards like RPi by using javascript. Johnny Five is the go to framework for this, here it is the demo for blinking a led with a js script.
For simple things -within Windows- like use of joystick I’d recommend giving Gamepad API a try.
I think I can retrieve some scripts from an old external disc in regards to RPi. But keep in mind that the more complex the logic the more latency you would get.
The problem with running tjs environments in this way has been physical hardware limitations so it really depends which pi you have… vram on rpi<5 is heavily limited, your best bet using velocity / orientation / positional inputs from a rpi would be web sockets, essentially you’d build a minimal socket.io server on the pi that would relay simple click / move / rotate matrix value updates on a vector based scene, interperatable and consumable by three hosted on a capable client device, rather than host a full client side 3D app on the pi… You’d want to look at socket.io sessions
Thank you Antonio. You are spot on, it is hardware limitation. I will play around Johnny Five and Gamepad API, lets see how it goes.
Fair point. I have never thought about VRAM. In fact I don’t know a lot about VRAM. Cheers Lawrence.