It would be awesome if there could be a port of the Ant+ protocol so that data from Ant+ devices could be accessed by Max in realtime.

Hey! That's a really good idea actually. I'm currently working on solidifying my python ant library as part of

Once that's nice and tested, I plan on spinning it out into another repo, and possibly making a C version. I really don't understand why ANT went the free-as-in-beer route with their stuff, 'cause I'm totally just reimplementing what's on their page.

Keep an eye on http://www.openyou.org for more info about the ANT stuff, as I'll probably post there as well as on my personal blog, but openyou is focused on sports and health hardware work.

I will be very happy to be able to use data from my Garmin 500 or 705 in Max.

What additional hardware might be necessary? The Garmin ant+ stick?

I'm not quite sure yet. Part of the OpenYou project is to see if I can't make a generalized ANT+ pickup off of an SDK or sparkfun board, and then just use that to talk to whatever device via protocol classes. So the Max/Pd external will probably be able to pick VID/PID for the USB so we can switch between whatever stick you may have, assuming all of this works. Right now, all I've got is a fitbit. I'm supposed to get getting suunto and garmin stuff soon though.

Have you anything for the Sensable Phantom haptic device? I see something for the Novint...

Hey man, I really enjoyed your page! I was wondering if you have done any work with other Fitbit wristbands? I'm hoping to get live heartbeat data into Max.