Help and FAQ

##Piccolo Problems##

###Controllo doesn’t seem to communicate to Piccolo###

Check the serial port. By default controllo selects the last port on the list:

myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[Serial.list().length -1], 115200);

When you start controllo, it will print a list of ports to the processing console:

[0] "COM3"
[1] "COM35"

The port for Piccolo should be something like COM35, COM15 or COM16 on windows, and dev/tty.usbmodem on a mac. If you see this on the list try changing the selected port index to match:

myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[1], 115200);

On windows, you can also confirm the serial port number by having a look at “Ports” in the Device Manager.

For more help with selecting the right ports have a look at the getting started pages on Arduino.cc - http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage

Further help is also available in the Processing wiki - http://wiki.processing.org/w/Serial_Issues