[PD] osx pduino: nothing works

[Derek Holzer]

Yes proper FTDI drivers installed.

The Analog Firmata works, however the Standard Firmata is totally broken.

D.

On 3/9/10 4:27 PM, Greg Pond wrote:
> do you have the proper ftdi drivers installed?
> http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm
>
> good luck.
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl
> <mailto:derek at umatic.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I'm in the middle of a workshop right now, and nothing I planned
>     works. All the users on OSX cannot use the Pduino objects. They all
>     have latest Pd-Extended 0.41.4 and latest Pduino-0.5beta6. They have
>     all successfully loaded the Standard-FirmataV2 (the Standard-Firmata
>     is too big for the Atmega8) to an Arduino NG w/ Atmega8.
>
>     Then they open arduino-help.pd, use "devices" to determine the
>     proper port and set the port.
>
>     Then I have them test with "pinMode 13 1" followed by "digital 13
>     1". I see the RX LEDS flash, but the pin 13 LED does nothing. Then I
>     open [pd DIGITAL-OUTPUT] and use that patch to flash all the digital
>     outputs, after setting them to output mode in the main patch. Again,
>     RX lights blink but nothing else.
>
>     After that I get long strings of the following:
>
>     UNKNOWN INPUT COMMAND: 8 32120
>     [arduino] warning currently unsupported 160
>     [arduino] warning currently unsupported 176
>
>     This is consistent across every installation, whether PPC or Intel.
>     We can't really go further with Arduino without fixing this, so I
>     hope someone can help.
>
>     In contrast, I am using Pduino04.beta2 with Pd-extended-0.39 on my
>     machine and everything works fine. I have also been unble to run any
>     Pduino with Pd-extended-0.41.4. Installing Pduino04.beta2 with
>     Pd-extended-0.39 on a couple of machines of the students hasn't been
>     an effectivbe workaroundm however ([arduino-help.pd] crashes Pd in
>     this case).
>
>     Any suggestions welcome. Is there something I totally missed here????
>
>     D.
>
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