Blenduino

Getting things from Arduino to Blender and back

Overview

Blenduino is an almost-plug-and-play addon for Blender that facilitates easy access to a Serial data stream. Bringing information from the physical world into a virtual 3D environment has many potential applications, from experimental new interfaces for 3D modelling and animation to immersive interactive experiences that blend the real and the virtual. Blenduino is not intended to be a robust production system, rather an easy way to get started experimenting!

Here's a demo of Blenduino in use!

Getting Started

Ready to get started? See the User Guide for a brief walkthrough!

Contributing

Blenduino welcomes contributions! Please be aware of the following:

• Blenduino has adopted the Contributor's Covenant
• Specific notes on contributing can be found in CONTRIBUTING

Staying in the Loop

To view what's next, see the roadmap (of course suggestions are welcome!). Please feel free to reach out or open an issue if you have and questions, thoughts, or ideas!

License

In the spirit of Blender's open source nature, Blenduino is released with no warranty under GPL v2

Reflections

Blenduino is developed with support from ITP xStories, and was first created during the class Open Source Studio at ITP. Find the final presentation notes here.