Sending words to an Arduino

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Hi Chris,

I am new to MWorks and I was wondering if there is a supported way already to send a word to an arduino. I was thinking of using and arduino to gate water delivery with the time of the gate open ‘attached’ to it.

Thank you!

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Hello,

At present, MWorks’ Firmata interface supports single-pin digital outputs but not word output. However, we can add word output support, if that would be useful.

Cheers,
Chris

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Hi Chris,

Thank you for your response. I’m not yet sure if I’d be using it, but if it
wouldn’t be a hassle, it would be great having that feature.

Thank you!
mariana

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Hi Mariana,

Apologies for not responding sooner. I’ve been out of the office on vacation.

Did you look into sending words via arduino/firmata within MWorks?

I did. It’s going to require some significant restructuring of the Firmata plugin, so I’m not sure I want to tackle it before the release of MWorks 0.8 (which hopefully will be out in the next month or two). When do you want/need to start using it?

Chris

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Hi Mariana,

The current MWorks nightly build includes support for Firmata word output channels. I’ve attached a short experiment that demonstrates how to use one.

Cheers,
Chris

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Attachment: firmata_word_demo.mwel.zip (377 Bytes)

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Hi Chris,

Thank you very much! Great news!