Hyperterminal on MAC for Arduino's etc.

[Cockatoo]

I recently came back to some Arduino projects and found, to my surprise that there is a lot of discussion on the web about Hyperterminal equivalents on the MAC. I have what I thought was a silly little app in RealStudio that I have used for various purposes. It identifies a couple of Arduino's and other USB to Serial devices if  connected and provides send/receive at various baud rates and settings.

With RealStudio I have this compiled for MAC, Windows and Linux. If it is of interest, I would be happy to make it available.

I guess that simple tools do have a place and in the DIY Arduino world, it is often a simple app that makes it all much easier.

[John McIver]

Hi Cockatoo

I've used Arduino on a few projects. They're very useful devices. I built a set of cheap data loggers using them, for a truck testing project. I am PC based but would be interested to see your RealStudio application.

Regards

John

[Cockatoo]

Hi John,
No problems. It is a very simple serial comms app that I use as an alternative to the Arduino IDE when I want to do such things as pass arduino data to Mac/WIN7 Applications. I am pondering a recast while I interface a 16key touchpad to a theatre app for sound and video control. If you wish, I can easily send you the simple RealStudio .rpb file to play with. There is a minor difference between the device ID's on Mac USB-Serial driver and the WIN7, but it works fine cross-compiled for both. (Haven't run it up on a Linux box yet - that would be interesting too).

One capricious app for this was a midi interface emulating a drum kit using piezo-sensors. Learnt a lot, but it's a totally useless application.

I do plan to interface my arduino data-logger to a graphical interface, but I have not yet drafted interrupt-driven change-detection arduino code that I like and I don't want to go with polled collection.