Hi
Since recently abandoning Max and Windows, I feel like I have regressed in knowledge. I am trying to parse two sensor streams (from Arduino) in PD. The main issue I have appears to be how to build and decipher lists. In my test sketch and patch I'm sending two static values, and I need to separate them out in PD. I tried using header values for each sensor, but I'm missing something fundamental. How do I send a bundle of discrete values to PD, and how should I then parse them?

Many thanks
Brendan

Just replying for myself here: Serial.println() and [sel 13 10] are the simple requirements. I would hwoever like to achieve this using vanilla objects too, whcih I guess is a little more heavy handed, but at least this works.

Apologies for the noise.

Brendan

What if one of the values you send with Serial.write() get the value 10 or 13? Your system will get confused. You need to work on this system a bit more. You can use the [serial_write] and [serial_print] abstractions I've made which you can find here. Mind that in some systems (mine, for example), [comport] reads a 10 when the Arduino sends a 13. I have made a fix for this for the [serial_print] abstraction, which is the [serial_print13] abstraction, haven't made a fix for [serial_write] yet. Still, it's very likely you won't have that problem. Read the README.md file.

For more in-depth information on how to build such a system, you can also read my "Arduino for Pd'ers" tutorial, which you can find here, under "Tutorials". Though this tutorial was written before I made the [serial_*] abstractions and it's a bit more technical on how the whole mechanism works.

Thanks Alexandros, I will check out those links.

Your web resources are amazing! The 'VCOs in PD' tutorial helped me solve another PD problem I had too

Thanks

Glad you found it useful!