DaKarch

Success! After updating firmware, updating to 4.2 framework, rebuilding a few contributor's projects for the updates etc, getting out the multimeter and learning the lesson of voltage drop through the shield and the lesson of what the power blocks are registering....I can finally say that I have a standard 2 wire motor and servo working (note on servo...crash course in PWM happened there too). Thank you to those who have posted the motor shield classes!

Update on Firmware... Original firmware version 4.1.2821.0 Updated firmware version v4.2.0.0 RC4 (Basic test of ND+ onboard LED functioned correctly after firmware update) Led on adafruit motor shield does not light up.... BUT on an upside I can now plug in the shield and my PC see my ND+ More to follow (hope this helps others)

Hey guys,

New to the forum and new to Netduino. So far I am loving it!

I picked up the AdaFruit motor shield and I am having some problems with it. Thought maybe someone here could point me in the right direction.

Hard and software:


Win7 32 Bit
SDK 4.1
.NET xpress C#
NetDuino Plus Rev B
AdaFruit Motor Shield V1.2

Problem:

When the shield is plugged in the PC will not see the ND Plus (also the power led on the shield does not light up). the shield's reset button does reset the ND+.

What I did so far:

A friend has an Arduino. I plugged the shield into there and the power led energized and the Arduino was seen by the PC. Need to test with code on the arduino next.

I have a suspicion...

When I did the getting started project with lighting the onboard LED I had to make the mod:

"If your Netduino’s LED
exhibits the reverse behavior when you run this
sample, you can either update your firmware or
change the code from:
buttonState = button.Read()
to:
buttonState = !button.Read("

So I am wondering if I have to upgrade the firmware to get the shield to work? FYI....I plan on updating the firmware I just don't want to lose my forward momentum with figuring out ND+ and the C#