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Turn on onboard LED with PC Keyboard.

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#1 orenduino

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Posted 10 February 2014 - 02:56 PM

Hi

I am a new to the NETDUINO (and c#)

So far it looks great, I am looking forward to study and do great things with it.

Currently, I own a NETDUINO (or NETDUINO 1).

 

I have search the web, but I did not found a solution.

Let me introduce my problem as simple as I can.

in order to interact the hardware in realtime,

 

 

I'd like to be able to turn the onboard led on and off by clicking the SPACE button on my PC keyboard.

I'd like to integrate the Netduino with a standard c# Console program.

something like this:

static void main(){for (int i = 0; i<10 ; i++) {    console.readkey();       // wait for a keypress on my PC keyboard   turn_on_led_function();  // a function that turns the onboard led on   console.readkey();       // wait for a keypress on my PC keyboard   turn_off_led_function(); // a function that turn the onboard led off   console.writeline("{0}", get_button_status()); //bool read the button status}}

is this kind of code possible anyway ?

Can you help me with the LED and  BUTTON functions ?

 

Thanks

Oren



#2 perpetualKid

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Posted 12 February 2014 - 07:44 PM

there is no out of the box option to interact from PC to the device at runtime, the USB connection is only used upload new firmware/programs.

You can use the Onboard button in the way you described, instead of PC Console input. The easiest way is to poll the Button or use an Interrupt. If you want interaction with PC, the next simple option is using Serial (UART) communication. As most recent PC's don't have serial anymore (and would also require level converter due to different voltage levels), recommend using a "USB to Serial" module on the PC end, or an Serial to Bluetooth module on the Netduino. Should be few bucks only for the module in either option.



#3 baxter

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Posted 14 February 2014 - 12:11 AM

You might take a look at the MCP2210 USB to SPI module, http://www.embeddeda...spi_module.html http://www.microchip...ocName=en556614

 

Microchip supplies a prebuilt PC terminal to interact with it and also, a PC DLL to write your own code.You could use either the module GPIO pins or SPI to interface with Netduino.



#4 orenduino

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Posted 15 February 2014 - 11:46 AM

Thank you for your answers perpetualKid and Baxter.

The MICROCHIP might be interesting, I will check this further. Thank you

 

regard the UART communication

Basically, I need to read/write tables of data from/to the FLASH Memory (Or RAM).

and initiate functions whenever writing data is done completely.

do you know any examples for this ?  (writing to flash/RAM through COM, trigger an event through com, etc)

 

Thanks

Oren



#5 lifanek

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Posted 15 February 2014 - 05:02 PM

Check out my code here http://forums.netdui...ces/#entry56074 - maybe You will find there some useful info.





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