Hello I am new for PD.
I want to control my Robotic Arm Edge OWI535 via PD. and I have USB Interface for Robotic Arm which is ELANUSB. Also I installed driver I can control via own program.

After installing driver, I can see ELANUSB under the Universal Serial Bus in the WinXP Device Manager. So it is not HID device so I can not use the "hidin" comment for communicating in the Pd-extended.

Is there a way to control my Robot arm via USB on the Pd-extended?

thank you very much for reading

Yo CatDog,

Check out whether your arm appears as an output device under midi-settings in Pd. If it does, then just choose it, and feed it midi-signals. [hidin] is for input devices, such as game controllers.

If your device does not appear, check out whether you can route midi or OSC signals from PD to the arm's software via something like Jack, MidiYoke,.. etc.

Good luck, and keep well ~ Shankar

I'm guessing that the arm is serially controlled. When you installed the device, did it come with drivers? Does the addition of the device add another COM port to you r machine. If so, you should look into comport for communication with it.

>>Check out whether your arm appears as an output device under midi-settings in Pd. <<

this is the first thing i read in this thread, and it was quite strange when taken out of context.

Ah, yes. that sentence is strange out of context. haha

@mod said:

>>Check out whether your arm appears as an output device under midi-settings in Pd. <<

this is the first thing i read in this thread, and it was quite strange when taken out of context.

It's not strange if you're Stelarc.