Hey I am having trouble with creating an array of serial values and using the values. I can get the serial values in, change it to a float and print out the value but I can't seem to find a way to use the values in the circle function. The serial information is coming from a ping sensor through arduino.  What I am trying to achieve is

1.put the serial values into a array,
2.get an average value of the serial data from the array
3. pass the average value onto another function - circle()
4. use average value to do stuff

I have added a portion of the code.

1.      import processing.serial.*;  
       Serial myPort;
     // float [] maxValues;
       float average, sum;
       float pulse;
         float maxValues[] = new float[10];
2.      average = 0;
        sum = 0;
        
        void serialEvent (Serial myPort) {
         String bufferString = myPort.readStringUntil('\n');    // get the string from the serial buffer               if (bufferString != null) {                 
           bufferString = trim(bufferString);  // get rid of any whitespace
           float maxValues = float(bufferString);      // declare a variable to hold our value.
           maxValues = map(maxValues,0,350,0,1);  
         }
     //in the loop assign a value to each index in the "maxValues" array
     for(int i = 0; i <= maxValues.length; i++) {
     maxValues[i] = maxValues[i];
    }
       //to calculate the average sum all the values inside the maxValues array
       for(int i = 0; i < maxValues.length;) {
       sum += maxValues[i];
       }
      average = sum/maxValues.length;  
      println(average);  
       }
   
       void circle() {
         //do stuff
         }