[PD] ascii2pd, pd2ascii (serial communication, arduino, Xbee), concat (list-abs) and cvs

[martinrp at alcor.concordia.ca]

Quoting Thomas Ouellet Fredericks <iamonthebeach at gmail.com>:

> I wrote 2 abstractions to manage ascii data(codes) within PD. And another to
> 
> concatenate data.
> I found that the existing externals did not have the latitude I needed or 
> treated a limited set of ascii characters.
> They require pd 0.39, zexy and the included ascii4pd.txt file.
> 
> NOTE: The quoted text is to be read as if in a PD message box ("a,b" 
> indicates two messages)
> 
> --- pd2ascii
> Converts pd symbols, lists, floats and anything into integers (ascii codes)
> Examples:
> converts "a1" or "a,1" to "97,49"
> converts "a b" into "97,32,98"
> converts "321,LF,CR" into "51,50,49,10,13"
> 
> --- ascii2pd
> Converts intergers into individual pd symbols or floats.
> To combine the data into complete pd messages, I wrote the following 
> abstraction, concat:
> 
> --- concat (maybe this could be included in list-abs?)
> Concatenate floats, symbols, lists and anything into complete PD messages 
> that can have sublists (spaces).
> Example:
> step 1) ascii2pd converts "97,32,98,13" into "a,SPACE,b,CR".
> step 2) concat can convert "a,SPACE,b,CR" into "list a b".
> 
> Get them here: http://tof.danslchamp.org/pd/ascii2pd+pd2ascii+concat.zip
> 
> I would like to include them into the CVS (so Hans can include them into his
> 
> installers :). How do I do that?
> 
> Hans, these could be very usefull for your Arduino abstraction (like sending
> 
> 16bit numbers, instead of being limited to bytes).

They should also be useful with my net objects
http://pure-data.iem.at/Members/martinrp/netobjects
since they all use "raw" bytes to communicate. All that's missing now is a way
to compare strings and a pd patch could function as a web server...

Martin