[PD] arduino+solenoid concert

[tim]

Alexandre Quessy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2007/6/21, tim <info at timvets.net>:
>>
>>  Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>  On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:21 -0400, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
>>
>>  Hi!
>> I don't want to insist... but a task like this would be much easier
>> with the
>> http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/SimpleMessageSystem
>> than with something not-as-flexible like Pduino.
>>
>>  I agree to that.
>>  We did something similar a while ago, with realys, shift-registers 
>> and 13
>> solenoids.
>>  It was fairly easy to make one firmware for pd communication with 
>> SMS as
>> well as shifting code to drive the relays.
>>  More complex passages showed some timing fluctuation, but overall 
>> timing
>> was pretty good.
>>  Polyphony was kept at a maximum of 4, above that, things became more
>> unstable.
>
> So, SMS is signicantly slower because it uses ASCII conversion ?
> Interesting. Even at high baud rates ?
>
>
>>  In case you're interested, see
>> www.timvets.net/projects/erkiandtim/poltergeist
>>  We obviously were more inclined to drink beer than to shoot film that
>> night...;)
>
> Error 404 !
>
uhm yes, sorry that should be:  
http://www.timvets.net/projects/erkiandtim/pg/poltergeist.html
gr,
Tim

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>>  Tim
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