p5-serial.github.io
About
This repository is part of the p5-serial project, created in 2015 at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program by Shawn van Every, Jen Kagan, and Tom Igoe.
This project is a beginner-friendly library for adding serial communication capabilities to projects using p5.js, that can run on any modern browser.
Similar projects with different scopes and strategies include p5.webserial.js and p5.web-serial.
For a list of more p5.js libraries please visit https://p5js.org/libraries/.
Structure
The p5-serial project’s repositories are part of the GitHub organization at https://github.com/p5-serial, which includes these 3 active repositories:
- https://github.com/p5-serial/p5.serialserver: a server side library.
- https://github.com/p5-serial/p5.serialport: a client side library.
- https://github.com/p5-serial/p5-serial.github.io: this repository, with info about the contributions, articles, and an overview of the project.
Additionally, these are currently archived repositories:
- https://github.com/p5-serial/p5.serialcontrol: a desktop app that runs a p5.serialserver for use with a p5.serialport client, built with Electron.
Grants awarded
This project has been supported by the following grants:
- 2019 Google Summer of Code, grant awarded to Jiwon Shin and mentored by Shawn van Every, summary here
- 2022 Processing Fellowship, grant awarded to Aarón Montoya-Moraga and mentored by Shawn van Every, summary here
Contributors ✨
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
 Shawn Van Every 💻 |
 Jen Kagan 💻 |
 Tom Igoe 💻 |
 Jiwon Shin 💻 |
 Wenqi Li 💻 |
 aarón montoya-moraga 💻 |
 Lisa Jamhoury 💻 |
 Lachlan Campbell 💻 |
Contributing
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
If you find a problem or want to propose an addition in any of our repositories, we ask you to please create an issue on the corresponding repository, following these guidelines:
- Specifiy the serial device, computer, operating system you are using.
- Specify the versions of the software you are using.
- Include any other relevant info you think is important.
If you want to work on an existing issue, we welcome pull requests!