Just some random thoughts while waiting for your answer: Note I have never connected ChucK to a serial port but I have talked to an arduino in other languages (processing most recently) so I can probably help. I'm using a Macintosh but since it is UNIX based it shouldn't be that different from Linux methodology. o- I assume you will be using a USB serial port to talk to the arduino. Have you used this on the arduino already? o- If you don't find a working example you'll need to break it down. I would get the arduino going first using terminal software to debug it. o- The key to getting two devices to talk without lots of fragile debugging is to create some core software on both sides that you can debug once and seldom change. This core generally implements some simple command/ response protocol. Once that works you build out from it in both directions by adding new commands. o- the ChucK part of the software should probably be in its own thread. The rest of the system interacts with the thread through common variables. Only that thread should know anything about the arduino. You can imagine a thread which continuously polls the arduino for pot data and writes the values into an array. when other parts of the software need to know a pot value it looks in the array. Again this allows you to write the whole arduino interface stuff once and never change it. especially the comm part. It also lets you change your mind and use a raspberry pi with wifi instead. or maybe you'll find a cheap midi controller with sliders somewhere. The rest of the code just uses the array and doesn't care how the data got there. Fortunately the USB serial port is very reliable. you shouldn't need to bother with error checking and resending data o- you need to decide which is the master and which the slave. It can be done either way especially with slow devices like pots. It's probably a little easier to debug if the arduino is the slave. You probably detect a little paranoia on my suggestions. There is nothing inherently difficult in this but if you don't do it right it can be a killer to debug mostly because you can't easily see what is happening on the wire. Once you get the communication parameters to match it should be pretty simple. On Wednesday, January 1, 2014, Steve Morris wrote:

Are you looking for advice on the arduino side or the ChucK side?

On Wednesday, January 1, 2014, Alan Brooker wrote:

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Hi there

I am using ChucK 1.3.2.0 (Chimera) with miniAudicle 1.3.0a on Ubuntu 12.04- I think the latest version can communicate with Arduino directly? Cant seem to find any examples so any advice or example code would be much appreciated. I am trying to build a simple step sequencer with *x5 potentiometer*s that send values to an arduino board and then into ChucK hopefully. Was hoping I could do this without OSC-

thanks for helping this noob!

Al

Hi Spencer/Steve, Thanks for your reply and thoughts, much appreciated...hmm I'm not getting Arduino & ChucK to Communicate at the moment but I think I need to work more on my Arduino code more to communicate with ChucK- up to now I have been using Firmata with Pure Data, which only requires the the Firmata sketch to upload. As you say there is a lot of stuff here to look at so will report back :) Thanks again! On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Spencer Salazar wrote:

Hi Al,

If you check out the chuck examples folder that came in the chuck download or in the "Open Example" menu item, there should be a "serial" subcategory with some basic examples of communicating with serial devices (e.g. Arduino) in there.

What I would recommend is sending your 5 analog values as a space separated series of ASCII numbers, ending with a newline, and repeating this at whatever your desired refresh rate is. In ChucK, you can use onLine()/getLine() (as in the lines.ck example) to get each line of data, which includes all 5 current sensor values. There is also a (minimally documented) RegEx class you can use to pull out the values individually and then convert them to integers.

Ive also attached another ChucK example I have that does something very similar to this, except it reads only 3 sensor values and uses commas to separate values.

Thats a lot of stuff, so let us know if you have any more questions.

spencer

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Alan Brooker wrote:

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Hi there

I am using ChucK 1.3.2.0 (Chimera) with miniAudicle 1.3.0a on Ubuntu 12.04- I think the latest version can communicate with Arduino directly? Cant seem to find any examples so any advice or example code would be much appreciated. I am trying to build a simple step sequencer with *x5 potentiometer*s that send values to an arduino board and then into ChucK hopefully. Was hoping I could do this without OSC-

thanks for helping this noob!

Al

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+1 to the Firmata interface idea. Joel On 01/02/2014 06:23 PM, Steve Morris wrote:

someone should do a ChucK interface to Firmata. It is a good starting point. Maybe I'll give it a whack.

On Thursday, January 2, 2014, Alan Brooker wrote:

Hi Spencer/Steve,

Thanks for your reply and thoughts, much appreciated...hmm I'm not getting Arduino & ChucK to Communicate at the moment but I think I need to work more on my Arduino code more to communicate with ChucK- up to now I have been using Firmata with Pure Data, which only requires the the Firmata sketch to upload. As you say there is a lot of stuff here to look at so will report back :)

Thanks again!

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Spencer Salazar > wrote:

Hi Al,

If you check out the chuck examples folder that came in the chuck download or in the "Open Example" menu item, there should be a "serial" subcategory with some basic examples of communicating with serial devices (e.g. Arduino) in there.

What I would recommend is sending your 5 analog values as a space separated series of ASCII numbers, ending with a newline, and repeating this at whatever your desired refresh rate is. In ChucK, you can use onLine()/getLine() (as in the lines.ck http://lines.ck example) to get each line of data, which includes all 5 current sensor values. There is also a (minimally documented) RegEx class you can use to pull out the values individually and then convert them to integers.

Ive also attached another ChucK example I have that does something very similar to this, except it reads only 3 sensor values and uses commas to separate values.

Thats a lot of stuff, so let us know if you have any more questions.

spencer

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Alan Brooker > wrote:

Hi there

I am using ChucK 1.3.2.0 (Chimera) with miniAudicle 1.3.0a on Ubuntu 12.04- I think the latest version can communicate with Arduino directly? Cant seem to find any examples so any advice or example code would be much appreciated. I am trying to build a simple step sequencer with *x5 potentiometer*s that send values to an arduino board and then into ChucK hopefully. Was hoping I could do this without OSC-

thanks for helping this noob!

Al

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Hi everyone An update/more questions Yep I got Arduino talking to ChucK now with the* ints.ck http://ints.ck *script in the Serial folder under examples (don’t know why it wasn’t there so I just downloaded source/help files again!). Although I cant seem get *seiralRecvArduino_3.ck* to receive any data from my Arduino. Is there a way of modifying* ints.ck http://ints.ck *to receive /parse the incoming values from my x4 potentiometer? Thanks for any explanations/advice-much appreciated! Alan My Arduino code is below // the setup routine runs once when you press reset: void setup() { // initialize serial communication at 9600 bits per second: Serial.begin(9600); } // the loop routine runs over and over again forever: void loop() { // read the input on analog pin 0 to 4: int sensorValue0 = analogRead(A0); int sensorValue1 = analogRead(A1); int sensorValue2 = analogRead(A2); int sensorValue3 = analogRead(A3); int sensorValue4 = analogRead(A4); // print out the value you read: Serial.println(sensorValue0); Serial.println(sensorValue1); Serial.println(sensorValue2); Serial.println(sensorValue3); Serial.println(sensorValue4); delay(1); // delay in between reads for stability } On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Steve Morris wrote:

In case anyone is interested Firmata is two things. 1) It is a piece of software that runs on Arduino that allows sensors to be read via a serial port protocol. 2) The serial protocol is also called Firmata or the Firmata protocol. The Firmata protocol has a more or less midi format (sysex) and can be parsed by standard midi interpreters/parsers. I haven't looked at the ChucK midi support but it may be that 95% of the code needed for a Firmata client is already in that package. In fact it might be easiest to implement a Firmata client as a special mode of the standard ChucK midi package.

The nice thing about it is that the Firmata firmware gets serious maintenance so you basically just load it to the Arduino and it works. It can read most standard sensors that plug into the Arduino. It was originally written to allow processing apps to read Arduino sensors and display the results allowing processing to basically be a gui front end for an Arduino. Firmata client libraries/plugins are now available in a variety of languages including PureData as Alan mentioned earlier. It has become the defacto way to access Arduino sensors from a remote host via a serial port. ChucK absolutely needs someone to write a Firmata client library and it should be bundled with the core ChucK package. It would make using Arduino sensors in ChucK a simple plug and play, basically bug free operation. A lot of work has already been done to connect various sensors/controllers to music systems using Arduino/Firmata. Making all of that work available to ChucK users would be a big win.

The protocol is documented here:

http://firmata.org/wiki/V2.3ProtocolDetails

Firmata doesn't solve every possible Arduinio interface need but it covers 95% of what most people want to do.

-steve aka zencuke

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Joel Matthys wrote:

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+1 to the Firmata interface idea.

Joel

On 01/02/2014 06:23 PM, Steve Morris wrote:

someone should do a ChucK interface to Firmata. It is a good starting point. Maybe I'll give it a whack.

On Thursday, January 2, 2014, Alan Brooker wrote:

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Hi Spencer/Steve,

Thanks for your reply and thoughts, much appreciated...hmm I'm not getting Arduino & ChucK to Communicate at the moment but I think I need to work more on my Arduino code more to communicate with ChucK- up to now I have been using Firmata with Pure Data, which only requires the the Firmata sketch to upload. As you say there is a lot of stuff here to look at so will report back :)

Thanks again!

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Spencer Salazar < spencer@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

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Hi Al,

If you check out the chuck examples folder that came in the chuck download or in the "Open Example" menu item, there should be a "serial" subcategory with some basic examples of communicating with serial devices (e.g. Arduino) in there.

What I would recommend is sending your 5 analog values as a space separated series of ASCII numbers, ending with a newline, and repeating this at whatever your desired refresh rate is. In ChucK, you can use onLine()/getLine() (as in the lines.ck example) to get each line of data, which includes all 5 current sensor values. There is also a (minimally documented) RegEx class you can use to pull out the values individually and then convert them to integers.

Ive also attached another ChucK example I have that does something very similar to this, except it reads only 3 sensor values and uses commas to separate values.

Thats a lot of stuff, so let us know if you have any more questions.

spencer

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Alan Brooker < alan.brooker2010@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Hi there

I am using ChucK 1.3.2.0 (Chimera) with miniAudicle 1.3.0a on Ubuntu 12.04- I think the latest version can communicate with Arduino directly? Cant seem to find any examples so any advice or example code would be much appreciated. I am trying to build a simple step sequencer with *x5 potentiometer*s that send values to an arduino board and then into ChucK hopefully. Was hoping I could do this without OSC-

thanks for helping this noob!

Al

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