Just to be clear...(serial object)

TFF's icon

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?

Thanks,
-Zach

Luke Woodbury's icon

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

seejayjames's icon

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 :)

TFF's icon

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