you would need to label your sensors with an identifier bit/byte and then analyse and then mask that bit/byte inside of max, routing the signal to its relevant part of your patch.
for example, each sensor will send its data packet, maybe one byte of sensor data, preceded by an indentifier byte, maybe 0x00 for sensor one, 0x01 for sensor two. you might not need to use a whole byte though, if you only have two sensors you only need a bit, either 0 or 1. in max you will get two bytes for each sensor: 0x00 0x?? and 0x01 0x??. [atoi] will change ascii to integer values which i think will help with data analysis (display it as a hex value in the number box) and you can use the [zl] objects (some combination of [zl group] and something else if i remember correctly) to combine these groups of numbers into blocks of usable data. then you’d set up some logic in max to detect the preceding 0x00 or 0x01 and route accordingly :) hope that makes sense!
adam – ive had an arduino for some time now, but am a bit of a programming novice. i always intend to use it with max, but find a lot of things rather taxing. this maxuino patch sounds quite promising! thanks for the heads up. my arduino is not where i am right now, what kind of data comes out of the maxuino object then? just everything?
