Arduino

I am involved in a student project which uses some Arduino Mega 2560 sensor interfaces in an interactive device. It has been a while since I worked with Arduinos myself, as I am mainly working with Belas these days. Also, I have never worked with the Mega before, so I had to look around a little to figure out how to set it up with Cycling ‘74’s Max. I have previously used Maxuino for interfacing Arduinos with Max. This is a general purpose tool, with a step by step approach to connecting to the Arduino and retrieving data. This is great when it works, but due to its many options, and a somewhat convoluted patching style, I found the patch quite difficult to debug when things did not work out of the box. ...

Seems like the Arduino community is growing quickly. Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, itself built on Processing. At the moment I am very happy with the Phidgets interfacekits for my electronics work, but as soon as I am done with my dissertation I will get into the Arduino/Wiring/Processing world. ...