Processing is a free beginner-friendly programming language designed to help non-programmers
create interactive art with code. The SparkFun Guide to Processing the first in the SparkFun
Electronics series will show you how to craft digital artwork and even combine that artwork
with hardware so that it reacts to the world around you. Start with the basics of programming
and animation as you draw colorful shapes and make them bounce around the screen. Then move on
to a series of hands-on step-by-step projects that will show you how to: Make detailed pixel
art and scale it to epic proportions Write a maze game and build a MaKey MaKey controller with
fruit buttons Play record and sample audio to create your own soundboard Fetch weather data
from the Web and build a custom weather dashboard Create visualizations that change based on
sound light and temperature readings With a little imagination and Processing as your
paintbrush you ll be on your way to coding your own gallery of digital art in no time! Put on
your artist s hat and begin your DIY journey by learning some basic programming and making
your first masterpiece with The SparkFun Guide to Processing. The code in this book is
compatible with Processing 2 and Processing 3.
