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radarboy
Basic Stamp
May 28th, 2005, 12:44pm  
How would one use processing to say flash an LED on a Basic Stamp. Got as far as getting Processing to see my serial port etc. but can't seem to work out how to talk to it properly....
eg. do a simple thing like press key, turn on LED...
Also i keep getting Var spool lock errors:
RXTX Warning:  Removing stale lock file. /var/spool/uucp/LK.001.009.002
RXTX Warning:  Removing stale lock file. /var/spool/uucp/LK.001.009.002
Not really serious, just annoying. If i remove the file, then it works, but seems to always reoccur.
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radarboy
Re: Basic Stamp
Reply #1 - May 29th, 2005, 4:22pm  
OK, worked it out.
For anyone who is interested:


PBASIC CODE:
- Modified from James Matthews' code (http://www.generation5.org)

led1 CON 3      ' The first LED
progPin CON 16  ' The programming pin
ledCmd VAR BYTE
LOW led1

ReceiveLoop:
SERIN progPin, 84, [ledCmd] ' Get the serial data
IF ledCmd = 48 THEN ledon
IF ledCmd = 49 THEN ledoff
GOTO ReceiveLoop

ledon:
HIGH led1
GOTO ReceiveLoop

ledoff:
LOW  led1
GOTO ReceiveLoop

PROCESSING CODE:
import processing.serial.*;
Serial myPort;

void setup() {
background(255,0,0);
myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[5], 9600);
}

void draw() {
if (mousePressed){
myPort.write(49);
 background(0);
 }
 else
 {
  myPort.write(48);
 background(0);
 background(255);
 }

}

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boppyer
Re: Basic Stamp
Reply #2 - Aug 2nd, 2005, 5:59pm  
hi there,
just quick one, but did you manage to find a way of automatically deleting those files:

/var/spool/uucp/LK.001.009.008

i have the same probs and have to delete them manually

kind regards

Boppyer:-)
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fry
Re: Basic Stamp
Reply #3 - Aug 2nd, 2005, 6:31pm  
have you read tom's instructions about re-installing serial after installing tiger?
http://processing.org/faq/bugs.html#serial

and please don't cross-post.
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boppyer
Re: Basic Stamp
Reply #4 - Aug 2nd, 2005, 7:00pm  
I did yes, and it didn't resolve the problem, sorry for cross posting but it was the same bug as the orginal post Sad
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