Hi,
I'm having trouble using the data I get from my arduino. I am sending values as ASCII strings to [comport]. I cannot figure out why it is so difficult to convert them back to usable floats. What I get out of [comport] is a string of ascii characters(represented by two-digit numbers), followed by a carriage return(13) and a linefeed(10). I could build a sorting machine to get just the usefull stuff, convert ascii to symbols, the to floats. However, I would still have to deal with recombining the strings. This seems like something that should "just work." any suggestions?

I should mention, I am open to using other data types on the arduino end; octal, hex, binary, whatever.

did you try [symbol2list] ?

[string2any] seems like a viable choice. However, I still need to convert strings to floats.

from this:

9
7
bang
bang
9
8
bang
bang
9
9
bang
bang
1
0
0
bang
bang

to:

97
98
99
100

Okay, hacked on through.
The idea is a *BASIC* hw interface using arduino to interface stompbox style controllers: Wah pedals, stompbox "blanks", knobs, sensors, etc...

Arduino SKETCH

/*
This is the code which just reads analog data off the
adc pins and then prints it to serial.
Connect pots to +5, and GND. Wipers go adc pins 0,1.
!very rudimentary!
*/
float val1,val2;
int potPin1 = 0;
int potPin2 = 1;
void setup(){
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(potPin1,INPUT);
pinMode(potPin2,INPUT);

}

void loop(){
val1=analogRead(potPin1);
Serial.print(potPin1);
Serial.println(val1,DEC);

val2=analogRead(potPin2);
Serial.print(potPin2);
Serial.println(val2,DEC);

}

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/parser_tester.pd

dude, u just saved my day! been searching for this since 8 hours now!
i need to read sensor data from an ultrasonic sensor and i couldn't get it workin with pduino, since the arduino-ultrasonic-patch and the firmata don't get along with each other. i think this will be great for other stuff as well(accelerometers, etc).
thanks, you're awesome!

edit:ps: why didn't u just use pduino btw?

I didn't use Pduino mostly because I could not figure out why I was only getting messages every 10ms or so. Instead of looking into it further I decided to make my own firmware. Pduino is great because you can control the I/O pins from Pd, but I'd just rather have static firmware that worked how I wanted.

So I've been banging my head against the wall with the same problem that you had, outputting a string of 16 values from an arduino, outputed as a string with spaces between the values, and using a capital A as a delimiter (i've tried other delimiters as well), and turning the output from string2any into something usable rather then:

6
8
bang
bang
8
9
bang
bang
1
2
bang
bang, etc.

How exactly did you go about making this incoming stream usable? I'm trying to write these values to an array, and all of my single digit numbers come in fine, but 10 and higher are completely botched.

Any advice that you could give would be great!

Thanks

I'll check it out when I get home. If you don't hear from me by monday, bug me at

nestor [at] fuzzy [dash] math [dot] com

just wanted to say thanks too!! the parser_tester code was exactly what i had been looking for for the last few days!

zonxs7, did you ever figure anything out for numbers 10 and higher?

Ah, and I solved it. For me, I had to set the repack size. In nestor's patch, it was set to 22, but it wasn't clear to me if that did anything (and nestor even made a note that it didn't matter). I was expecting mostly 3 digit numbers in addition to the delimiter, so I set the repack size to 4 and that seems to have solved my problems.