I'm a software developer by nature and have recently started a little Research project. I might warn you, i am an absolute beginner when it comes to electronics, but through a few days of reading I believe I grasp the basic concepts of what I want to do - however, bear with me all the same!
So all I want to do, is hook up and ID-20 to a netduino plus and read a couple RFID button tags and capture their RFID in a C# application. But for the life of me I can't do it! And yes, I have read everything to do with the ID-12/20 and the netduino on these forums and the web.
I've tried the code here: http://forums.netdui...ch__1#entry7082
and code here: http://www.hackmeist...egory/netduino/
I do not receive any input. Sometimes it seems as though I receive input and I hit my breakpoints in my code and I receive some arbitrary number of bytes (EDIT: between 1-13), but after calling mySerialPort.Read(...) my buffer still reads 0 for every index in the byte[].
I've wired my netduino plus as follows:
- ID-20 pin 1 to netduino grnd
- ID-20 pin 2 to netduino 5v
- ID-20 pin 7 to netduino grnd
- id-20 pin 9 to netduino D0
- ID-20 pin 11 to netduino 5v
I'm using these RFID buttons: http://littlebirdele...fid-button-16mm
I'm not wiring the reset port or an LED - does this matter?
I have not installed the firmware from here: http://forums.netdui...mware-v420-rc1/
Does this matter? I'm currently running version 4.1.0.6
If you need more information, please let me know and I will happily hunt it down. I could have just made a silly mistake! Thanks in advanced, and thank you for building an extensive community here at netduino.com
Jace