Firefly

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Firefly offers a set of comprehensive software tools dedicated to bridging the gap between Grasshopper, (a free plug-in for Rhino) the Arduino microcontroller and other input/output devices. It allows near real-time data flow between the digital and physical worlds – enabling the possibility to explore virtual and physical prototypes with unprecedented fluidity.

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  • How to Sync with ABB robot controller?

    Hey There. A quick question: is there any way to synch Arduino/Firefly with HAL?I have a tool attached to my robot arm and I kinda manually control it through Arduino. I need to use Firefly to parametrically and maybe in almost real time (if possible) control the tool.How I can use I/O in the…

    By Mehdi FarahBakhsh

    May 15, 2019

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  • Writing to SPI/I2C devices through FT232H

    Hi all.I'm recently working on a kinetic project involving a number of hobby servo motors controlled by a I2C PWM controller PCA9685. (or some of you refer to the famous Adafruit 16 channel 12-bit PWM/Servo Driver - I2C interface )I realize it would be very nice if I could hook up Grasshopper to…

    By Victor Leung

    May 16, 2018

    1

  • Serial read problem in Firefly

    Hi guys,I'm communicating with a 3D printer via Grasshopper / Firefly (and eventually) Silkworm.So far, I can quite happily send G-Code move commands to the printer  - which is a Leapfrog Creatr, based on Arduino Mega / RAMPS electronics - via the generic Serial Write command. I also want to get a…

    By fergal.coulter

    Apr 23, 2013

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  • problem while reading/writing

    I hawe a problem with writing/reading data in Firefly.I thought it is mine problem with board, but cant understand this stuff

    By Philipp

    Jan 24, 2012

    2

  • How to control stepper motor in different ways?

    Hi, I'm trying to understand how to use this Firefly. Firstly, I could have controlled servo motor with Firefly. Now, I'm trying to control stepper motor however I couldn't.I use Arduino Nano and L293D. There is no problem in my circuit because it worked with Arduino IDE. I couldn't control it's…

    By Mevhibe Demir

    Jun 21, 2020

    0

  • From Sketch to Rhino

    I am in the appearing for the master's thesis. I am preparing a script for making a structure from a sketch using firefly component - "web cam video stream". Below is the video which is present on Firefly's website…

    By Jayraj Ghatge

    Apr 10, 2020

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  • Which plugin do you recommend in Grasshopper or other program to work with in measuring visual connection in space?

    Do you think that SPACE SYNTAX can be helpful and do you recommend other plugin?

    By yara issa

    Oct 17, 2019

    2

  • can you help me understand firefly / firmata?

    hi all,several of us (arch. grad students and our professor at portland state univ) are trying to get our ultrasonic range sensors working on our arduino unos in grasshopper. we have dl'ed firefly and run the main firmata. at that point everything works great and we know how to do things between…

    By mart schaefer

    May 26, 2015

    2

  • Arduino Write Error

    Hello I installed Firefly 1.0.0.70 64bit and Arduino 1.6.5 (someone says that Firefly doesn't work with newer versions). When I upload Firmata to my Arduino UNO, "UNO Read" works, but when I try "UNO Write", it works for maybe half a second and after it returns this message: "Woops, it seems that…

    By Petr Vacek

    Mar 16, 2019

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  • Slow stepper motor

    Hello,, I am trying to send data directly from firefly mega write to a stepper motor with the firefly firmata.. I got the sequence of pulses that need to be sent.. problem is that it is not being sent fast enough.. I have a 1 ms timer rotating controlling the pulses, but it doesn't change…

    By Zayed

    Oct 19, 2018

    1