Connecting Arduino to Mathematica on Mac OS X


Mathematica is a comprehensive computational platform that purports to automate workflow involving computing results, “from building a hedge fund trading website or publishing interactive engineering textbooks to developing embedded image recognition algorithms or teaching calculus.” (It’s not open source, but a hobbyist license is available.)

William J. Turkel teaches a course on interactive exhibit design and wanted to use Mathematica in conjunction with physical computing with Mac OS X. He put together this short guide for anyone using Mathematica on the Mac and wants to integrate Arduino input. The result is similar to the integration of Arduino and Processing, and is accomplished through the addition of the SerialIO package to Mathematica.

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