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Usage
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Communication with Arduino boards is done via the Firmata[1] protocol.
You will need to prepare your board by using the standard Arduino IDE
to upload the latest Firmata code (version 2.1 is recommended, you can reach it from http://at.or.at/hans/pd/Firmata-2.1beta7.zip, in file V2.0). Note that
the version of Firmata supplied with v17 of the IDE is a bit buggy.
The board usually shows up as /dev/ttyUSBx (x is number) in a Linux system,
assuming that the connection is over USB-serial. Your user account needs to
be in the 'uucp' group to access the device. Also, the baud-rate is very
important for things to work. The baud-rate in the Firmata code, and the
rate specified in the taarduino.py file should match.
The device name is hardcoded to /dev/ttyUSB0, edit taarduino.py to use
something else. Patches to autodetect the correct device are most welcome :-).
As dependency you need pyserial (or equivalent name for python-serial module)
[1] http://www.firmata.org
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