[chuck-users] Serial/Arduino & ChucK example
Alan Brooker
alan.brooker2010 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 19:18:27 EST 2014
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 <steve at judgement.com> 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 <jwmatthys at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> +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 <
>>> spencer at ccrma.stanford.edu> 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 <
>>>> alan.brooker2010 at 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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