[PD] osx pduino: nothing works

Wed Mar 10 00:17:00 CET 2010

I just taught a class on Firmata/Pduino with 15 students on Mac OS X  
and it worked for all of them.  If you think there is a bug, please do  
file a bug report.  I am wrapping up everything for the Pduino 0.5  
release, so it would be good to get more info to make sure it all works.

ATMEGA8's are not really well supported by Arduino any more.  You can  
get a ATMEGA168 for a few euros, and just swap chips.  Its definitely  
worth the upgrade.

The vesrion of Firmata included in Arduino 0018 is the best one, but  
the one in Pduino-0.5beta6 zip should be fine too.  OldStandardFirmata  
== StandardFirmataV2_0

.hc

On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Derek Holzer wrote:

> Hey HC,
>
> yes I was religious about matching Firmatas between versions. I even  
> had Koray here looking over my shoulder to see if I was doing  
> anything stupid. He agreed that all versions of StandardFirmata we  
> tried were buggy on OSX.
>
> We are using Arduino 18. I don't see OldStandardFirmata anywhere in  
> the Pduino-0.5beta6 zip I downloaded, nor do I see a  
> StandardFirmataV2.1 anywhere. Are we looking at the same download?  
> What are you referring to?
>
> In short, we've gotten AnalogFirmata to work, but not  
> StandardFirmata (too big for Atmega8) or StandardFirmataV2_0  
> (numerous errors). Some of the student projects require both Analog  
> and Digital outputs, can you pls point me in the direction of  
> something that works?
>
> I will try changing the baudrate in Firmata V2.0 to 57600 and see  
> what happens.
>
> Best,
> Derek
>
>
> On 3/9/10 10:38 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> You need to match the versions of the Firmata on the Arduino and the
>> Firmata on Pd. Also, you should not use Firmata from Arduino 0017,  
>> its
>> buggy. Use Arduino 0018.
>>
>> For ATMEGA8 using OldStandardFirmata, but before uploading, change  
>> the
>> baud rate in setup() to 57600. That's the only change from Firmata  
>> V2.0
>> to V2.1. V2.0 is 115200 and V2.1 is 57600. Arduino now uses 57600 for
>> everything.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Derek Holzer wrote:
>>
>>> 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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