Comments on: mmmm…Arduino

By: Brettf

Brettf — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:09:29 +0000

Yeah pretty much. I think the arduino is sending UDP serial data to the computer and flash only does TCP so the proxy is doing the translation.

By: Markas Read

Markas Read — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:50:00 +0000

Ok, thanks. ports and protocols are not my strong point, but I understand that its a server(?) that deserializes data from a serial port (over usb) and retransmits it on a port, and in a way that that flash can bind to. perhaps.

By: Brettf

Brettf — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:05:58 +0000

Ah no problem. You can send serial data back from Arduino to the a host computer over USB or Universial Serial Bus (with the version I am using). Flash doesn't do serial data in the way Arduino sends it back so you need a program in between flash and arduino to allow for communication. The guys over at tinker.it created a serial proxy program for this purpose called TinkerProxy which basically creates a TCP socket flash could connect to. Does this help?

By: Markas Read

Markas Read — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:41:41 +0000

Sorry to sound like a buffoon, but what is a serial proxy? google wikiforge is returning nuffin.