Comments on: Turn up the heat in Flash with Arduino

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:42:12 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. However, can you post a schematics link how the circuit witht the arduino looks like? i’m a complete electronics noob!

By: woodnotoil

woodnotoil — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:00:17 +0000

“Dammit Aral, I read this expecting you’d worked out a way I could control the central heating with my Arduino board… LOL, Matt! The scary thing is that someone probably is doing that as we speak”

I am controlling part of my heating system with an arduino. You can check it out here woodnotoil.googlepages.com/arduino . I would love to do something with flash to be able to monitor my heating system on my linux PC. Aral thanks for posting your work on this. If anyone is interested in helping me, you can PM me on the arduino forum under the same username.

By: farz

farz — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:52:46 +0000

Glues firmata version does not seem to compile and standalone versions available beta2 and 334 both give the same SKIPPING/JITTERY result.

iestyn, whats different in glue that made it work?

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 :)