[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Dorkboard-firmata-PD

[Fred Smith]

Thanks Michael - I appreciate it.

I haven't explored pyduino, so I have some homework to do. I look into
it, and may have some questions off the reflector if that's not a
problem.


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Michael Bunsen <notbot at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have had good success with using firmata and puredata (via pyduino),
> not specifically on a dorkboard though. It's been nice to have on
> arduino around with firmata loaded. I've been able to do a few quick
> projects without thinking about doing any reprogramming.
>
> Let me know if you need some help with pyduino, I couldn't find any
> documentation when I started (though still haven't gone beyond the
> basics).
>
> Michael
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Fred Smith <fxsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the feedback Don - I'll plug away at firmata for a bit,
>> given that affirmation.
>>
>> Yeah, I realize this approach lobotomizes the arduino - I'm taking
>> baby steps out of the box (it's cold out there). Hadn't considered the
>> MIDI approach - there seems to be a fair bit of resources in that
>> direction. I'll take a look.
>>
>> -fred
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Donald Delmar Davis
>> <ddelmardavis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Firmata should work just fine though it moves much of the work to the client
>>> and turns the arduino into a rather dumb but capable io port.
>>> It makes more sense in my opinion to make the arduino produce midi and send
>>> controller and note messages.
>>> But there is pretty good support for firmata and it should work.
>>> Don (aka feurig).
>>> On May 13, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone in the group used Firmata in conjunction with the arduino
>>> controllers as built in the DB Induction classes? I've just started
>>> debugging my config within puredata, but thought I'd ask in case
>>> somebody had a "oh, that'll never work", or "yes, that is quite
>>> possible" type of answer off the top of their heads.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> -fred
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