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[Dr Who]

[font="'times new roman', times, serif;"]Hello![/font]

[font="'times new roman', times, serif;"]I have my Mini set to communicate via the TTL port. [/font]

 

[font="'times new roman', times, serif;"]With that being said, can the unit make use of the serial (RS-232) port for program communications? Or for that kind of system access do I need to trade my ideas from making use of the Mini over to the regular Netduino?[/font]

 

[font="'times new roman', times, serif;"]Some of the other ideas in this portion of the forum are offering me that clew, as an example one of us is looking to run his hardware off of a LiPo batter as sold from Sparkfun, plus associated management hardware for it, I believe he(?) is also looking to have his rig communicate via Bluetooth with the outside world to provide management.[/font]

 

[font="'times new roman', times, serif;"]I freely admit that I did think of having either of mine running off of a battery pack, Sparkfun sells a shield ostensibly aimed towards the folks down the hall, (Arduino) [Explanation is not mine, the term come from Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series] They show it wearing an appropriate battery pack, and standing on top of an appropriate unit. [/font]

 

[font="'times new roman', times, serif;"]But the serial (RS-232) port as one that is communicating with the outside world at appropriate hardware, now that's something rather new. The Bluetooth devices sold by Sparkfun state that they need a widget that translates between the two levels, TTL to RS-232 and back of course.[/font]

 

[font="'times new roman', times, serif;"]I'm just throwing ideas out here, I do not have a complete application at hand at the moment.[/font]

 

[Chris Walker]

Hi Dr. Who, If you're running 4.1 firmware on your Netduino Mini, you can use either port for debug/deploy--and then use the other port in your application. Chris

[Dr Who]

Hi Dr. Who, If you're running 4.1 firmware on your Netduino Mini, you can use either port for debug/deploy--and then use the other port in your application. Chris

 

Hello!

I should have mentioned that before, that's what I get for typing it out in a Starbucks, it is running 4.2 as is the other one. If you recall I had an interesting problem then with flashing 4.2 to both devices.