aptik / serial-projector

A simple Chrome Application that shows last line of text got from serial port with a big font.

Serial Projector

A simple Chrome Application that shows last line of text got from serial port with a big font.

Use Serial Projector with Arduino and other development boards to show coming data with style and formatting of your choice. Go full screen to make your 42″ TV a blazing output peripheral.

Installation

Find Serial Projector in Chrome Web Store and click “Add to Browser...”. Thats all.

Usage

Just send text to serial. Once Serial Projector will see end of line (\n) the text on sceen will be updated.

You can send UTF-8 unicode and HTML.

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop()
{
  int t = analogRead(A0) / 100;
  Serial.print("<div style='font-size: 0.2em'>Температура / Temperature</div>");
  Serial.print(t);
  Serial.println(" °C");
}

Use buttons at the bottom right corner to adjust application settings.

Demo video is available on YouTube.

Authors and License

Written by Victor Nakoryakov, © Amperka LLC.

This software may be modified and distributed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE.txt file for details.