So the documentation for the serial object says that it can't use anything connected via USB, unless through some kind of converter.

My Arduino only has a USB-B port on it, and on top of that my laptop has no traditional serial ports. Is there anyway at all I can use it with Max?

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USB serial drivers, but I'm pretty sure they come with Arduino software anyway.

yep the FTDI drivers essentially are the "converter" which the [serial] object needs. Check out "Maxuino" and other patches/objects around the Forum and elsewhere to help get data back and forth... they mainly deal with parsing/formatting issues so you don't have to :)

Ah, didn't even know I already had this installed! Thanks.

Just to be clear...(serial object)