Hi folks! I’ve been meaning to do something cool with my Pod and patch.Init() when I bumped into one of Takumi’s excellent Daisy+Pd videos on YouTube! I tried out pd2dsy and loved how quick I was able to get something working on the hardware. Then I thought, the setup process for pd2dsy would still be tricky for a non-developer, so what if I put it in a Docker container with a web UI in front? After a week or so of tinkering, here’s “Gardener”!
It’s still really rough around the edges. For example, if your patch fails to compile, you won’t get to see the error output yet. But it’s a good start!
In the future I can imagine Gardener doing other things too, like combining the functionality of the Daisy Web Programmer or compilation support for MaxMSP gen~. It could become a more general-purpose “web playground” for Daisy.
Try it out and let me know how it goes!
P.S. - As I was getting ready to post, I saw the awesome update that plugdata now supports Daisy hardware - wow! Plugdata looks like an even more streamlined experience to get a Pd patch onto Daisy hardware, although Gardener has some advantages of its own since it’s web-based. I think the zero-install aspect is really promising.
Can indeed see a use for perhaps an online service that compiles and flashes for you. Would certainly make setup a lot easier.
Since you intend to also integrate max/gen~ I’ll leave the topic in the general #integrations section.
(I was going to move it to #integrations:pure-data but lets leave the possibilities open )
If you’re just using the Daisy Seed for audio I/O, you can arbitrary pick other boards like Pod.
And you can even connect sensors to the same pins that Pod uses for the two potentiometers and get things working
That said, custom JSON file upload feature would make this website even better.
Thanks for the interest @robbielongcat! No explicit support for the seed yet but I like @Takumi_Ogata’s point about reusing the other configurations.
I don’t think adding custom JSON support would be too difficult either, so I’ll see if I can add it over the next week or so!
I had a thought the other day that it would be super cool to have a way to easily create the JSON as well, maybe through my other favorite visual programming environment, Scratch+Blockly! Would that be useful to you?
What I did is treating my Daisy Pod as Seed and put in the pre-made Pod JSON file
The potentiometers, encoder, and switches are working perfectly!! What I did notice was the LEDs not lighting up but this is also the case with plugdata, so that’s something that needs further look into in general.
Awesome work!! Thank you so much for this new addition!
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so feel free to move the post if you’d like.