I've connected a Sparkfun Electronics USB RFID Reader to my machine.

Each RFID tag I scan sends a unique string of characters and numbers like these.

56001842E6EA
5600184DF6F5
560017B9C830
56002C423109

I've tested the reader through the arduino serial monitor and the numbers are displaying correctly.

now I want to be able to import the numbers to PD. I'm sure my problem is a coding error on my part (which is why I haven't posted this in the hardware section) as I'm new to PD.

The USB reader is on port 8 at 9600.

I set up the attached simple patch.

For some reason the it prints the following results in the console.

print: 2
print: 53
print: 54
print: 48
print: 48
print: 49
print: 56
print: 52
print: 50
print: 69
print: 54
print: 69
print: 65
print: 13
print: 10
print: 3

If anyone could point me int he right direction I'd appreciate it.

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

Thanks for the replies.

I found a solution here: http://hacklab.recyclism.com/workshops/rfid-arduino-pd/

The patch is quite complicated. I'm not sure if it needs to be but I have it working now anyway.

Thanks for this.

I can find very little help on the makefilename symbol, at least nothing I fully understand. There is just far too much PD jargon in forum discussions and nothing in terms of tutorials.

Where should I start?