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I've been eyeing this projects for months now, finally got around to doing it - works great!

A note for Mac users:

DON'T use: /dev/tty.xxxx

DO use: /dev/cu.xxx

Take care!

Ok, so after all my fluffing around trying to get the core to work as expected on modern mac computers the final refactoring is elegantly simple: don't use the Freetronics core, use the one that comes with the ardiuno IDE 1.0 (I'm using and tested with 1.0.2). To do this you just have to make a slig...

effgee wrote: What ?! There's xmas decorations that don't rely on an arduino ? I won't have a word of it.
You need to educate your wife as to what is a real xmas decoration.

I know, I know....I was going to show her your post but she was in the kitchen with a cleaver so I thought better of it...

Hi cef, Thanks for your input. I doubted it is was simply a delay issue as it would mean that any uploaded sketch should trigger the HID detection at some point, but this wasn't the case. HID detection only occurs after the first tone is generated. To be thorough I did try your suggestion with delay...

Hi Everyone, I've had progress on this and have found some interesting interactions with the more recent mac models. Note that my topic was about the serial communications from a sketch, but this issue also includes the Keyboard and Mouse HID. I tested the sample sketch from my initial post on a Lin...

Hi Everyone, My first post here, so apologies if this is too much or too little info! I've recently purchased a leostick but I'm having trouble getting the serial port(s) to work from a sketch. Probably something simple I've overlooked, but some help would be appreciated. * The leostick has v1.1 on ...