chose/extra/Fraise

FRAISE : FRAmework for Interfacing Software and Electronics

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Fraise is :

• a protocol for communication between microcontrollers
• some conventions about the communication physical layers and associated connectors
• a multi-platform integrated development and runtime environment hosted by Pure Data for microcontroller boards

Fraise boards are currently powered by Microchip's PIC18F26K22 8-bit microcontrollers, which have similar capabilities to Arduino's ATmega328.

Compilation of the firmware is done with SDCC and gputils; Fraise ships with the compiler's binaries for Linux-x86, Windows and OSX (Linux-arm to come), and automates from Pd all the compilation and upload processes.

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##dependencies :

PureData + externals :

• zexy
• moonlib
• hcs
• ggee
• comport

On 64 bit linux, the compiler requires 32 bit compatibility libraries. On Debian-like do :

sudo apt-get install libc6-i386

sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6

##installation :

Install Pd + externals (or pd-extended). Get deken if it is not already installed, to be able to download latest versions of the externals.

Download latest Fraise version from Github : https://github.com/MetaluNet/Fraise/archive/master.zip.

Extract the archive somewhere, declare this path into Pd preferences.

On Linux, you may need to add your user to the dialout group, to have read/write permissions on the USB device /dev/ttyACM0. Just do :
sudo adduser [your_username] dialout

then logout and re-login.

##examples :

Open fruit/example/exampleFruit.pd with Pd.

##documentation :

Fraise library is generated by doxygen, and is published there : http://metalunet.github.io/Fraise-doc

Also, have a look at http://metalu.net/ressources-techniques/fraise.

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Antoine Rousseau 2007-2016

license : GNU GPL (see LICENSE.txt )