[chuck-users] serial communication and chuck

[trzewiczek]

Hi,

I'm not C++ dev, so I won't help you with the 
serial implementation, but from the teaching
perspective I think it's a very good idea 
(and actually some opportunity) to teach 
beginers solving problems with different
tools and use interoperability protocols
like OSC or MIDI. The very next time your
students need some graphics or camera as 
a sensor, they know it's easy to use some
other tools, like Processing and connect it
with ChucK or whatever they use. There is 
a lot of good commercial software that works
just fine with these protocols, so then
after the course is over, your student will 
be used to connecting software in all 
directions. The classic example for me is
using Modul8 - OSX VJing software that has
quite a complete OSC namespace, so you can
easily use it with SC3 or ChucK to create
advanced, interactive visualizations during
the performance.

trzewiczek



On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Stephen David Beck wrote:

> I have a similar situation with a class that we are teaching. But the students have already learned Processing basics and ChucK basics before they do Arduino. So getting them to connect the Arduino to ChucK using Processing and OSC is not a problem.
>
> But I would be equally interested in a serial communication solution.
>
> Steve
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> On Mar 4, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Scott Smallwood <scott.smallwood at ualberta.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone on this list knows whether there are any plans to (finally) implement serial communication in ChucK?
>>
>> I ask because, as someone who has been teaching Arduino-related things, I've basically stopped teaching ChucK in favour of Pd, simply because there isn't any way to get communication happening between ChucK and Arduino except through a third environment (like Processing via OSC or something).
>>
>> I understand that it isn't that difficult to do this via OSC and Processing (or java or whatever), but it introduces an unfortunate stumbling block for beginners, and I find that it is just easier to teach in an environment that has native serial communication abilities (like Pd, Supercollider, etc).  But really, I'd MUCH rather teach ChucK, as I find that it is such a good teaching language and has so many out-of-the-box features thanks to the native implementation of percolate...
>>
>> I posed this question a couple of years ago and it seemed like there was lots of interest in making this happen, but as far as I know, nobody has stepped up.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> --ss
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