I am using a Nike+ sportskit with this sparkfun serial to USB adaptor.

My ultimate aim is to get the data from the sensor to send MIDI CC values so I can control Ableton Live.

I'm fairly new to Processing, and in the past have used MaxMSP and Isadora for doing more geeky AV stuff, but I'd like to learn and develop my processing code more.

I'd like to start off by asking how to get processing listening for a serial input to read data from the foot pod. I've tried the simple serial example and have had a bit of a blonde moment when it talks about using the Arduino. I do have a couple of Arduinos, but I thought that I would just be able to read the data directly through the sparkfuns USB connection.

I've tried googling for more information on people using these cool things, but seems that python is being used which Ii have never looked at.

http://borismus.com/nike-hacking-with-python/

Do you think that this is possible/straightforward in Processing/Arduino?

many thanks

Karl