[PD] problem with diecimila and pd extended

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Fri Sep 21 21:16:30 CEST 2007


On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Steffen hat gesagt: // Steffen wrote:
>
>> On 14/09/2007, at 19.09, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>
>>> i am not quite sure, which one the ardiuno diecimila is (couldn't  
>>> find
>>> any info about it)
>>
>> Basicly it's the latest. There are info at the Arduino website [1].
>> One change that to my limited knowledge might be of interest, and
>> seam most significant, is:
>>
>> "Rather then requiring a physical press of the reset button before an
>> upload, the Arduino Diecimila is designed in a way that allows it to
>> be reset by software running on a connected computer." -- [1].
>
> I also got my first Arduino now, and it's a Diecimila board. I
> couldn't upload anything to the board on my main machine, though, and
> at first thought it was broken, but then it worked fine on my laptop.
> Need to investigate this later.
>
> I was told by my vendor, that one has to use the 0.9 Arduino software
> to upload, I didn't try any older version anyway.
>
> I also didn't yet try Firmata, maybe I'll check it out next week, but
> as I need to control stepper motors, I might not be able to use
> Firmata anyways, I guess.
>
> Hint for Debian users: The Debian instructions on arduino.cc are way
> out of date, follow the Ubuntu docs instead.
>
> Autoreset is a nice feature, but on some boards it doesn't work, as
> they have the wrong firmware on it accidentally. See the FAQ.
> Thankfully it works for me.

I've got a Diecimila board and I had no problems running the latest  
release of Pduino:

http://at.or.at/hans/pd/Pduino-0.3.1.zip

That in combo with Pd-extended 0.39.3, it should "just work"

http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html

.hc

>
> Ciao
> -- 
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