electron-johnny-five-potentiometer-example
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An electron app using johnny-five to control a servo based on a potentiometer
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#4-potentiometer This app controls a servo based on a potentiometer
##Setting up the hardware
I used an arduino mega for this example, but any of the boards supported by johnny-five should work.
Connect a servo motor directly to pin 10 and a potentiometer to A0
##Setting up the code
To run, first clone the repo and npm install the example directory
git clone https://github.com/sofroniewn/electron-johnny-five-examples
cd electron-johnny-five-examples/4-potentiometer
npm install
Unfortunately the serial port may not work right away and might need to be rebuilt
./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild
At this point if you try to starting the app with
npm start
You may get an error if the path to serialport.node is wrong
Uncaught Error: Cannot find module '/Users/sofroniewn/github/electron-johnny-five-examples/1-led/node_modules/johnny-five/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/node-v47-darwin-x64/serialport.node'
This can easily be fixed by
mv ./node_modules/johnny-five/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/electron-v0.36-darwin-x64/ ./node_modules/johnny-five/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/node-v47-darwin-x64/
You're now ready to run the app!
For more information about that error and using electron with johnny-five and node-serialport in general, check out this super helpful blog post by @noopkat
##Running the app After setting up the hardware and the code you are now ready to run the app with
npm start
Once the board has been found and the green status light in the top right has turned on, you should be able to control the servo by turning the potentiometer. The position of the servo is displayed in the top left corner. This servo has a range of 45° to 135°.
Congrats! Check out the next example 5-sensor