Hi Ben, Thanks for the pointers. I hadn't found all.
For the moment, I try mainly to find a usable firmata protocol. Best regards Olivier ;-) 2017-03-02 6:52 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com>: > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:31 AM, olivier auverlot > <olivier.auver...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Since some weeks, I do some experimentations with an Arduino board. I > search now to use my Arduino with Pharo. I have found some informations on > the web but nothing seems usable or up to date for the latest versions of > Pharo. > > > > Someone have worked on this domain ? I'm interested by a firmata client > protocol or why not a solution to program an Arduino directly from Pharo. > > > > Hi Olivier, You probably have a few of these references, but since you > don't mention which you have, > I'll list what I found from a quick sweep... > > I read [1] that the Firmata protocol "uses the MIDI message format." > > Pharo seems to have removed the MIDI related code after it forked from > Squeak. > Squeak still has it. Download 5.1 from http://squeak.org/downloads/ > Then go World Menu > Open > Method finder > Type midi <Enter> > and browse the code. Pharo and Squeak share a VM, so this should be > compatible with Pharo. > > You'll see a few of the primitives located in classes SimpleMIDIPort > and MidiPrimTester > in the System-SerialPort package. > > Note, some of the primitives that show no references/implementors in > the right-side pane, > need to be right-clicked to choose Senders to see the implementation, > since the method name is different to the pragma name. > > Then there is http://www.squeaksource.com/Arduino.html > which may or may not need to MIDI code from Squeak. > This code is circa 2013 so the (optional) FFI parts may need updating > for Pharo UFFI. > > There is http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~juanmanuelvallejos/gcodewithfirmata > "It is an implementation of the protocol firmata in smalltalk. And > also it contains a parsing to G code for cnc machines." > > There is http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Citilab/Snap4Arduino/ > circa 2014. > > There is http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~JohanBriglia/ArduinoIO > circa 2016, but probably not what you want being a "Simple program to > connect easily pharo and the arduino via serial port Uses a Python > program and terminal commands via CommandShell" > > There is http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~JLaval/Arduino > circa 2016, and the commits show PhratchArduino-janniklaval.9 > Phratch is available here http://www.phratch.com/ > Its based on Pharo 4, but seems the most current. > > Reading here... > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phratch/C6IYZ-TDt50 > perhaps the most efficient path would be buying Jannik an Arduino to test > on > (if indeed Phratch uses the firmata protocol as you require). > > > cheers -ben > > > > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/firmata/protocol/blob/master/protocol.md > >
