[PD] arduino for servos, strings and messages of arbitrary length

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Tue Apr 15 20:57:45 CEST 2008


On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:55 PM, olsen wolf wrote:
> Hi Hans
> very nice! & Servo_Firmata is working like a charm, with
> Analog_Firmata the servo turn's alittle whacky - might be due to the
> servos specs?!

Cool!  It's alpha, so I expect problems.  It should be fixable though.

> what's a potential use of the string stuff?

I don't really know, but people have requested it.  One example would  
be sending strings to a little screen.  Another is querying the  
arduino for the name of the firmware it is running.

.hc

> salutis
> olsen
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>>  I just finished up the sysex and string support in the Firmata
>>  library and the Pd [arduino] object.  I'd be interested in feedback,
>>  since I currently don't have a use for the string stuff.
>>
>>  http://at.or.at/hans/pd/Firmata%20with%20Pd.zip
>>
>>  Just drop the library into arduino-0011/hardware/libraries, and the
>>  example firmwares should show up under Open -> Examples.  There are
>>  two firmwares that should control servos when you send the [pwm
>>  ( message to the pin (it's rough).
>>
>>  This is an alpha release, so things could be rough.  There are some
>>  docs tho:
>>
>>  http://www.arduino.cc/playground/ComponentLib/Firmata
>>
>>  .hc
>>
>>
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