dyadica

Hi Guys, Thanks for the replies; sadly my computer has also bit the dust (not having a good week)so I’m not going to be able to try for a couple of days but fingers crossed For ref one of the mini’s was fresh, first thing I did was try the install. However the other one had some serial bits going off. Can I clarify if the update install wipes your existing program? If not then this may be the case for that one?? I’ll give the erase a go and try a few hundred times (hope not lol) and get back to you if that’s ok Once again thanks to you both for the help, hopefully it won’t take that long to get going. Any ideas if there is better software out there for flashing than samba? Also on the off chance is there another version of the update that fixes the serial issues so I can give that one a go on my third chip. Cheers, d

Ha, dammn and thanks With this in mind do you know if it is it feasible to communicate (using Com2) over xBee via a http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9132 board as this regulates the voltage down to 3v3 for the xBee from 5v. I'm not sure how the RX, TX are effected? If so I can swap the AHRS over to Com1. Any ideas? Cheers, d

Hi, A stupid question, I know I'm missing some raw and basic knowledge, if I use Com1 (TTL) to deploy and set up a SerialPort on Com2 (RS232) will Com2 only facilitate serial to other RS232 devices or can it do TTL. Does this matter for deployment only? are RX, TX lines independent of format as so to speak? I cannot seem to get a AHRS 9DOF to read via Com2. Cheers, d

Hi, I have managed to get this to work ok. Coincidentally I have just also done a blog post about it. If you don't fancy the idea of soldering on headers to your netduino you can also opt for the Sparkfun Explorer Regulated board. I use this too depending on requirement etc.

Hope that helps, d

Hi folks, I have updated the example to use Hari's SerialPortHelper class to handle management of the serial ports. The advantage of this is that with provision of ReadLine functionality there is no longer any need to detail the length of each set of data being sent back and forth. This simplifies the code greatly

For more info and to see the code in action check out the following videos:

1. Updated WinForm example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqIwx1Dvek

2. Netduino - XNA example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJEjDibe-Q8

The source will be available shortly via my website (just gone down grr) as soon as its back up (next few hours I hope)

Cheers, d