[PD] osx pduino: nothing works

[Derek Holzer]

Once I fixed the baudrate (thx!!!) it works fine. One student has 
trouble with an ATMEGA328 that I will have to troubleshoot tomorrow.

Good idea to make a specific release, or at least label it in some way 
that makes it clear. I know it's ugly to support very old hardware, but 
I think there are a lot of those things out there in the world still.

Best,
D.

On 3/10/10 7:03 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> Keep in mind this is beta software so you were just a beta tester. It
> would be great to incorporate your experience into the next release.
>
> Perhaps the best way to support the ATMEGA8 is to post a firmware for it
> somewhere, like StandardFirmataATMEGA8. It would just be
> OldStandardFirmata/StandardFirmataV2_0 renamed to StandardFirmataATMEGA8
> and with the baud rate of 57600.
>
> What is only a question of the ATMEGA8? Or where there other problems?
>
> .hc
>
> On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Derek Holzer wrote:
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>> Hi HC,
>>
>> thanks for clarification. I will try to find some time to stick it in
>> the FLOSS Manual Pduino chapters later on. I did get the ATMEGA8s
>> running with the new baudrate, now I have a problem with the ATMEG328
>> but I will deal with that tomorrow.
>>
>> I tried to get all 12 students using same versions of everything but
>> you know how hard that can be. What was supposed to be a 10 minute
>> installation took the entire afternoon, along with questions about
>> motors, circuits, mechanics and everything else in the middle of
>> debugging. Not an optimal moment for concentration to fix a glitch...
>> maybe I will stick to hardware-only workshops from now on, computers
>> are only good for causing ulcers and hairloss!
>>
>> I landed here Sunday and started the workshop the next morning so I
>> had no time to investigate what hardware the school had. I told them
>> they should upgrade the ATMEGAs they have but you know how long that
>> takes at any kind of institution ;-)
>>
>> Best from Helsinki!
>> D.
>>
>> Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 10, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Derek Holzer wrote:
>>>
>>>> List goofballs aside, I think it would be good to clarify all this
>>>> stuff.
>>>>
>>>> The split between the things available on HCs site and what comes
>>>> with Arduino is quite confusing. I was only using the ones from HC
>>>> to keep the versions matching.
>>>
>>> No argument here, its just a matter of finding the time to do it. With
>>> Firmata 2.1 the baudrate should be totally stable (that's the big
>>> change between 2.0 and 2.1), and further updates shouldn't cause
>>> issues. I'm working on finalizing the Pduino 0.5 release.
>>>
>>>> The Arduino-provided Firmata stuff does not contain the Pd objects
>>>> themselves, and if the Pd objects must match certain Firmata then it
>>>> would be good to make a note of that somewhere... maybe on the site
>>>> where the Pd stuff is downloaded?
>>>
>>> For the latest Pduino, either use the included one, or the one in
>>> Arduino 0018.
>>>
>>>> And besides that, if some Firmata says it supports ATMEGA8 then I
>>>> believe what it says. I spent half of yesterday smashing my face
>>>> against the keyboards of 12 students, trying to teach them something
>>>> that was broken, and the reason it was broken was not documented. So
>>>> yes I get a bit cranky!
>>>
>>> Firmata is an Arduino library which fully supports the ATMEGA8.
>>> StandardFirmata is a firmware that uses the Firmata library that is too
>>> big for the ATMEGA8. As a teacher, I would highly recommend avoiding
>>> the ATMEGA8, they are not well supported by the Arduino community.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Peace out dudes,
>>>> D.
>>>>
>>>>> 2010/3/10 Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Where do I find the matching Pd Firmata objects for the Firmata in
>>>>>> Arduino
>>>>>> 18 then?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe all of this could be a bit better documented? ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
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