[R] Wiring or Arduino package/scripts

[Jorge Cornejo]

Thanks... This will be very usefull.


Warren Young wrote:
> 
> Jorge Cornejo wrote:
>> Hi, I am  looking any way to communicant with Arduino
>> (http://www.arduino.cc/) Wiring (http://www.wiring.org.co) boards and
>> read data generate with sensor on these.
> 
> On Linux you can simply open the file /dev/ttyS0 in read/write mode to 
> talk on the first serial port on the PC.  (ttyS1 for the second port, 
> etc.)
> 
> If your PC doesn't have serial ports, you can get a cheap USB to serial 
> adapter, most of which are based on common chips like the PL2303, which 
> will also work, though with a different /dev node, ttyUSB0 or something 
> like that.  Type "dmesg | tail" after plugging the adapter in to see 
> what /dev/ node it was assigned.
> 
> Avoid the expensive adapters.  They often use special chips, requiring 
> drivers that aren't built into the OS.  The cheaper ones are actually 
> better, because the chances are better that they're using some generic 
> chip which your OS already knows how to talk to.
> 
> All of that also applies to Mac OS X and other Unixy type systems.
> 
> If you're on Windows, you may be screwed.  But, you can always install 
> Linux on another partition, or in a virtual machine system. :)
> 
> It doesn't appear that R has a built-in way to control the bit rate and 
> such.  You can do that from the command line with setserial on Linux, 
> but it's probably easier to just stick with the defaults -- 115200 bps, 
> 8N1 -- and make your Arduino use that.
> 
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