hi benjamin,<BR>
thanks for the quick reply!<BR>
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> What operating system are you running on?<BR>
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im on OS X (1.3.9) right now, using arduino 0004.<BR>
i will be migrating this project to a PC at some point, since this should go to an exhibited work, and im not leaving my laptop but rather my stationary PC at the exhibition space. but i guess ill worry about the PC stuff then. ;-)<BR>
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> I also have an Arduino. I use Mac OS X, and my board shows up as a Unix device, in /dev/cu.usbserial-something or <BR>
> other. (I'm afraid I've left the board at the lab so I can't check right now! :)<BR>
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OK. how do i check this? i can see it as an USB<->serial in system profiler...<BR>
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Squeak has a SerialPort class, but I'm not sure how to get it to <BR>
recognize serial ports on OS X. I hear it works well on Windows - and <BR>
maybe Linux - but I'll leave explaining it to folks who know better. <BR>
It looks like Ned Konz wrote a short introduction to it recently, at<BR>
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<a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Flists.squeakfoundation.org%2Fpipermail%2Fbeginners%2F2006-October%2F" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2006-October/</span></a> <BR>
001230.html<BR>
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(The rest of the archives are at "<a href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Flists.squeakfoundation.org%2F" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/</span></a> <BR>
pipermail/beginners/" - I think it must just be on a different <BR>
mailing list system than the page you found.)<BR>
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On OS X, I've instead written a small C library to read and write the <BR>
serial port, and talked to it using Squeak's "FFI" functionality. <BR>
(FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface, and it's a way to call <BR>
external libraries from Squeak.) I've had success talking to the <BR>
Arduino this way.<BR>
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I'd be happy to share my Unix/OS X code if it would help - let me know!<BR>
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Benjamin Schroeder<BR>
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</blockquote>thanks! i would greatly appreciate your code!<BR>
best,<BR>
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jacob remin<BR>
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