I got my AD206 chip as a free sample from analog devices

http://www.analog.com/commerce/index.html

It would be great to have support within Firmata for SPI - (serial peripheral interface) allowing control over this digital potentiometer or other devices and sensors that work with that protocol when connected to an arduino.

Could it possibly work to simply copy sections of the code from the arduino tutorial into the firmata firmware , first the definitions, then the void setup section and then the write_pot(0,0) command to control the device into the loop section.? As you can tell I have little idea how to do this.

Nick.

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From: Hans-Christoph Steiner [mailto:hans@eds.org]
Sent: 04 March 2008 14:39
To: nick burge
Cc: 'Pd List'
Subject: Re: [PD] Pduino and the AD5206 digital potentiometer

It would be possible to add support to Firmata for this, but it's not currently there. I don't have any of these chips, any volunteers? Patches welcome :D

.hc

On Feb 26, 2008, at 8:54 AM, nick burge wrote:

Dear PD list. I would like to be able to control the AD5206 chip (a 6 channel digital potentiometer) from within the Pduino object written by Hans-Christoph Steiner. The idea comes from one of the tutorial exercises in the C++ arduino program.

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/SPIDigitalPot

Is this relatively simple to do, or simply impossible? The aim in the long run is to be able to be able to calibrate 6 force sensors remotely using the digital potentiometers for an art installation project.

I have got the above mentioned tutorial project up and running succesfully using the arduino program, and I am also able to get Pduino communicating with the arduino quite happily on my Windows Vista system, but I would imagine to have control over the the digital potentiometer device from within PD would require a revision to the Firmata firmware would it not? I would be most grateful for a clue.

thank you for your attention, sincerely, Nick Burge.

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