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#1 2009-06-22 16:13:38

alexis1911
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PD+Arduino and minimum Booting time ?

Hi to you all,
and thanks for the extream quality of your forum and discutions!

I'm working on a "all in a box" system including PD and Arduino.

Who of you have an idea of speeding up the booting process ??

Pc+freebsd+arduino ?
Win2K + arduino ?
Tiny linux systems ?
Embeded systems (but what about the interfacing with arduino) ?
...
Any idea ?

Thanks to you all
(and sorry about my english)
Alexis (from Paris France)
;-)

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#2 2009-06-23 00:47:22

nestor
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Re: PD+Arduino and minimum Booting time ?

I got Pduino working on an NSLU2 embedded debian system.  Booting off flash memory with a stripped down linux install is a good way to speed up boot time.

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#3 2009-06-23 10:01:16

alexis1911
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Re: PD+Arduino and minimum Booting time ?

Thanks Nestor!
I just checked this solution on http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Debian/HomePage : looks great!

Is the NSLU2 enough for realtime sequencer or sampling ?
Do you have any latancy problem with it ?

Thanks a lot for your answer

Alexis

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#4 2009-06-26 04:27:21

nestor
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Re: PD+Arduino and minimum Booting time ?

The slug is real nice.  Mine runs debian-arm which has quite a repository for precompiled packages. 

The slug does not have a graphics card.  This is just fine, because you can forward an X.org session to another machine via ssh to do your patching.
The slug does not have a sound card.  There are packages on the repo to support ALSA and maybe Jack??  Pd needs to run with a floating point emulator  to do any audio as well... 

I'll tell you, I originally intended on using the NSLU2 as a way to encode wah pedals and make an OSC/UDP stream.  That way, you could "spread the load" across a network of specialized devices:  Arduino does ADC for sensing, the NSLU2 (build orifinally as a network device, booting from flash) builds the network packets, and a machine with powerful processors/GPU and a nice DAC does the audio and video.  Maybe I'll revive the project once I build a new 'lab'...

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