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openFrameworks and Arduino

openFrameworks is a set of C++ libraries that provides an easy method of coding audio, video, and graphical components. openFrameworks provides mechanisms to easily connect serial devices and Arduinos to personal computers, making openFrameworks an invaluable tool for Arduino development and a useful next topic for discussion.

openFrameworks can be compared to interlocking plastic construction bricks in that using individual units does not require knowing how to make them. The libraries of openFrameworks are a lot like boxes of construction bricks, allowing creativity to flow without having to code from the ...

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