[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Dorkboard-firmata-PD

[Fred Smith]

A data point for the DB:
I received a Duemilanove in the mail today, dropped it into my dev
environment, and achieved immediate success in communicating with PD.
This is after several hours this week trying to get the dorkboard to
talk w/o success (serial comm issues). I've learned a lot about
arduino, firmata,  PD and serial communication in general, but I'm not
going to mess with it and the DB anymore for now.

So, if anybody successfully runs firmata with a dorkboard
(specifically), I'd like to know (just to confirm it's a problem on my
end). Or, if anybody else runs into trouble, I'd be willing to
exchange info for debugging. But, I'm dropping it for now....



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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