Comments on: Getting Flash and Arduino talking, and problems with AS3 http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2008/03/23/getting-flash-and-arduino-talking-and-problems-with-as3 the humans are dead Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:55:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Iestyn http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2008/03/23/getting-flash-and-arduino-talking-and-problems-with-as3#comment-82 Iestyn Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:16:14 +0000 http://iestyn.net/wp/2008/03/23/getting-flash-and-arduino-talking-and-problems-with-as3/#comment-82 Hey Brett :) Thanks for that, that makes a lot of sense! For now, i'll stick with AS3glue and Firmata, but if I need to go without, i'll bear in mind what you've said. Hey Brett :)
Thanks for that, that makes a lot of sense!

For now, i’ll stick with AS3glue and Firmata, but if I need to go without, i’ll bear in mind what you’ve said.

]]> By: Brett Forsyth http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2008/03/23/getting-flash-and-arduino-talking-and-problems-with-as3#comment-81 Brett Forsyth Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:40:30 +0000 http://iestyn.net/wp/2008/03/23/getting-flash-and-arduino-talking-and-problems-with-as3/#comment-81 Thanks for the link(s). What you are running into isn’t a big deal to fix yourself. Relying on a message to show up in one packet can be dangerous. If you look at any of the example serial read scripts in arduino they typically loop over the buffer until an end character is found and then the message is processed. So you can do the same in flash. If you are sending data to flash with the Serial.println() function you can test for the new line character as the end of message at which point you can process it. Hope that helps. Thanks for the link(s). What you are running into isn’t a big deal to fix yourself. Relying on a message to show up in one packet can be dangerous. If you look at any of the example serial read scripts in arduino they typically loop over the buffer until an end character is found and then the message is processed. So you can do the same in flash. If you are sending data to flash with the Serial.println() function you can test for the new line character as the end of message at which point you can process it. Hope that helps.

]]> By: owen http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2008/03/23/getting-flash-and-arduino-talking-and-problems-with-as3#comment-80 owen Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:27:34 +0000 http://iestyn.net/wp/2008/03/23/getting-flash-and-arduino-talking-and-problems-with-as3/#comment-80 Hi Iestyn, I also had troubles with connecting to the Arduino, but I think for different reasons - there are some issues with serproxy and older intel macbook pros which I solved using <a href="http://protolab.pbwiki.com/Arduino2Flash" rel="nofollow">this serial socket server</a> instead. It's worth noting is that the Firmata firmware should be the only thing you need to upload to the Arduino board (until they release an updated version) as using it you can just control the board using Flash. It runs at 57600 baud rate by default. Owen Hi Iestyn,

I also had troubles with connecting to the Arduino, but I think for different reasons - there are some issues with serproxy and older intel macbook pros which I solved using this serial socket server instead. It’s worth noting is that the Firmata firmware should be the only thing you need to upload to the Arduino board (until they release an updated version) as using it you can just control the board using Flash. It runs at 57600 baud rate by default.

Owen

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