Appendix 4Controlling the Arduino with a Browser
For many hardware projects, you’ll need an application on your computer that visualizes some sensor data or that controls your device. In the Arduino scene, many people use Processing[153] for this purpose. Processing is a good choice. It’s fast, it has excellent multimedia support, and it supports a lot of libraries because it uses the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
Processing has some disadvantages, too. It is very similar to Java; that is, it’s a statically typed programming language. As such, it isn’t a good tool for building prototypes interactively and incrementally. Also, you have to install Java and the Processing environment to use it.
In many cases it’s a better choice to use a regular ...
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