Comments on: Turn up the heat in Flash with Arduino

By: Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:03:31 +0000

Aral, awesome stuff. I just got myself an arduino, and am blow away by the possibilities. Cheers

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:20:45 +0000

did anyone got to work that flash app on a web browser, my app works on flash player itself, but it doesn’t when i get that inside a browser!

By: Aral

Aral — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:16:01 +0000

Thanks Iestyn, Owen, Brett

By: Brett Forsyth

Brett Forsyth — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:38:34 +0000

@iestyn: Thanks for the links. What you are running into isn’t a big deal to fix yourself. Relying on a message to show up in one packet can be dangerous. If you look at any of the example serial read scripts in arduino they typically loop over the buffer until an end character is found and then the message is processed. So you can do the same in flash. If you are sending data to flash with the Serial.println() function you can test for the new line character as the end of message at which point you can process it. Hope that helps.

By: Owen Bennett

Owen Bennett — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:32:27 +0000

Hi Aral,

Finally got my Arduino working with Flash - seems that there is a problem with serProxy and older intel MBPs. I fixed it using Arduino2Flash serial to socket server instead. The set up is a bit fiddly, but it works like a charm I found it also helpful to upload the Firmata firmware, which should be the last time you need to upload anything to the Arduino itself (until they release an update) and then just control it with Flash.

Owen

By: iestyn

iestyn — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:59:42 +0000

Just a brief update, should anyone get the same problem. I’ve posted more info, including code samples, on my blog.

By: Aral

Aral — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:37:38 +0000

Hi Iestyn,

Thanks for the update. I’ll check out as3glue

By: iestyn

iestyn — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:36:00 +0000

Hey Aral, FYI I updated my post here.

I’ll sum it up:
- Seems OK with AS2.
- AS3 and flash.net.Socket coupled with Serial.println() seems to have a problem.
- Using as3glue it seems to work OK.

When I have time i’ll try to get to the bottom of this and post it on my blog.

By: Aral

Aral — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:23:31 +0000

Hi Iestyn,

I don’t remember if we saw them with the potentiometer on the night (we hacked that together pretty quickly and were learning as we went) but I did see similar readings when playing with it at home with a light sensor. I’m wondering if serproxy is at fault here.

By: iestyn

iestyn — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:39:53 +0000

Hey aral
i’m basically modifying your code to get the values of a potentiometer into flash, but i’m getting some odd readings when I trace() it.

Instead of getting what i get in the Arduino IDE:
1023
1023
1023

i get:
1023
10
23
1023

Did you see anything like this happening?
I’ve posted on the arduino forum too.