Hooking up Netduino to screen and serial
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Posted 14 October 2011 - 08:48 PM
#2
Posted 15 October 2011 - 01:25 AM
#3
Posted 16 October 2011 - 08:23 AM
Hi Dave,
That RS232 shield is from CuteDigi and is compatible with both Netduino and Arduino. You should be good to go there.
The touchscreen attachment is not Arduino or Netduino compatible (without using a bunch of jumper wires). I'd recommend picking up one of the 4D Systems displays/shileds or other displays which have been tested with Arduino and Netduino.
Terry Massey and Omar have done lots of work with displays, as has Fabien Royer. Perhaps one of them can pitch in with recommendations?
Welcome to the Netduino community,
Chris
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Posted 16 October 2011 - 08:29 AM
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Posted 16 October 2011 - 02:16 PM
Thanks for the reply, I'd certainly appreciate some recommendations from your or others on touchscreens or non-touch displays. I was hoping for something simple that didn't require rewiring/jumpers, etc. The FEZ Touch I mentioned simply hooks up to the FEZ Panda II (that's my understanding anyhow), I'm assumming that there are similar arrangements for the NetDuino. My understanding is that's one of the points of Arduino based systems. You just go out and buy a "shield" for your particular needs. I want to concentrate on the getting the data over serial port and plotting it (about 300 points and some warnings, buttons, etc.). I was hoping to use WPF.
Cheers,
Dave
Hi Dave,
That RS232 shield is from CuteDigi and is compatible with both Netduino and Arduino. You should be good to go there.
The touchscreen attachment is not Arduino or Netduino compatible (without using a bunch of jumper wires). I'd recommend picking up one of the 4D Systems displays/shileds or other displays which have been tested with Arduino and Netduino.
Terry Massey and Omar have done lots of work with displays, as has Fabien Royer. Perhaps one of them can pitch in with recommendations?
Welcome to the Netduino community,
Chris
#6
Posted 16 October 2011 - 02:19 PM
Cheers,
Dave
I've been playing with a Gameduino shield connected to a Netduino. This allows you to connect a VGA monitor and stereo speakers (via an amplifier) and gives you a colour display with resolution of 400 x 300 pixels (although screen memory extends beyond the visible display to 512 x 512). It is a wonderful device but as others have said there are performance issues with the SPI link and you will have to do quite a lot of work to talk to it using C#. I was progressing quite well but now my Netduino won't talk to Visual Studio.
Worth thinking about if you don't mind the effort. Alternatively (apologies if this is heresy) you could use it with an Arduino with the minimum of work.
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