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Hey,

I have x64 bit OS running on one of the builds you have on the bleeding edge.

I am not sure if my setup is fully functional.... but I get it to work most often and sometimes have to kill the java process manually to get it to release the serial port....

I'm having fun with this and learning a little more each day.

My question is how can I talk to the Arduino with a direct serial connection via  realterm or equivalent terminal when running the arduinoserialbare.pde on the microcontroller.  

MRL runs on a JVM and can communication to the Arduino micro-controller through a serial port.  MRL controls the Arduino through a serial protocol.  

MRL to Arduino uses a 3 byte command set

msg[0] = METHOD
msg[1] = PARAM1
msg[2] = PARAM2

The Motor service gui is being updated.  It has been designed to support multiple motor controllers. This is nice, since there can be a little complexity in attaching a motor to a motor controller.

For example an Arduino can directly drive a simple 2 bit H-bridge connected to a DC motor.  Or a motor shield can be used, which has its own motor port configuration.  Other shields and bridges might have different configuration.

Here's a portion of a screencap I made while trying to sort out some driver/hardware issues.

Basically, it's a matrix of versions of the same software arranged by where they were procured from.  But first, a little explanation might be in order.

Quiet computer's USB powering the RasPi

Noisy computer's USB powering the RasPi

2012.10.04 
WooHoo ! - This is a picture of data streaming from an Arduino connected to the Raspberry Pi (running MRL  instance RasPi) connected to my PC (running MRL instance MRL76732)

Finally... Yay !

This morning I finally got this work end to end with a streaming 3D point cloud.  It was slow, but it worked !  The kinect is fast but the display is painfully slow.  If a robot was using the 3D cloud, it wouldn't need a display anyway and there is probably display acceleration software I could be using like JOGL, but its a start !

Autocompletion

Made progress in both these areas (also bug /dev/ttyACM issue with Mega on Linux is fixed)

Autocompletion now returns relevant functions after CTRL+SPACE

MRL currently uses create-labs libraries to interface with serial info - They did a great job of normalizing the Java and doing a full build of 6 types (windows 64/32, Linux 64/32 & Mac 64/32)

Unfortunately the current Jar is filtering out ttyACMx which is the identifier for serial devices for Arduino Uno & Mega..

A easy work-around is to make a symbolic link like this :

ln -s /dev/ttyACM0 /dev/ttyUSB0 

you might need to chown or chmod the new link to give it the appropriate permissions