Grant,

Ok, I have wired SER_IN to pin 11

L_CLOCK to pin 10

/OE to gnd

/reset to Vcc

But there is one more pin on the breakout board, (CLOCK) that I'm not sure what to do with. Please see my wiring diagram. I would like to control each LED seperately.

Thanks for the reply Grant. Yes, I figured this out myself after you pointed me in the right direction.

When I finally took the time to figure out how the breakout board was wired to the IC, it became more obvious how to wire it up. Thanks for all your help!

Thanks Grant, I'll check this out when I get back from my out-of-town trip!

It looks like this wiring diagram may have been for the N+: http://netmftoolbox....ailable classes

The N+2 has pins SC and SD. When I wired my RTC to these pins, everything worked.

I purchased this RTC: http://www.adafruit.com/products/264

But when I go to set the time using the Toolbox.NETMF.Hardware.DS1307 I get the following error:

"Something went wrong setting the time. Did you use proper pull-up resistors and is there a 3V battery connected?"

The wiring is pretty simple and I've double checked it (see pic).The kit has the resistors and the battery, any ideas?

Here is the code where it fails:

DS1307 RTC = new DS1307();

RTC.SetTime(2013, 7, 29, 23, 14, 0);

here is the toolbox code where the call is throwing an exception

public void SetTime(DateTime Time)

{

// Writing 7 bytes to the buffer, starting at address 0

int BytesTransferred = this._Device.Write(new byte[] {

0x00,

(byte)Tools.Hex2Dec(Time.Second.ToString()),

(byte)Tools.Hex2Dec(Time.Minute.ToString()),

(byte)Tools.Hex2Dec(Time.Hour.ToString()),

(byte)Tools.Hex2Dec(((int)Time.DayOfWeek).ToString()),

(byte)Tools.Hex2Dec(Time.Day.ToString()),

(byte)Tools.Hex2Dec(Time.Month.ToString()),

(byte)Tools.Hex2Dec((Time.Year - 2000).ToString())

});

if (BytesTransferred != 8) throw new ApplicationException("Something went wrong setting the time. Did you use proper pull-up resistors and is there a 3V battery connected?");

}

I'm in the process of converting a PLC application over to the Netduino in order to reduce cost. I've been using Crouzet PLC's but they are too expensive and have too little RAM. The Netduino with a keypad, 2 line LCD and a cheap 4 relay board will do what I need at a fraction of the cost.

The moles will be anywhere from 10 yards to 35 yards from the central controller and up to 10 yards from each other.

I'm at the conceptual stage of a project and would like some advice. The project can best be described as a game. The "Whack-a-Mole" game is a pretty close approximation of what I'm trying to do except the "moles" are further apart. If you don't know what this game is, watch this 22 seconds of video: https://www.youtube....h?v=D0n8N98mpes

There will be n number of devices in the network and one master controller. I'm thinking the controller will be a laptop, but I'm open to other ideas.

Each device will "display" according to an algorithm running on the master controller. If the mole is whacked while its displayed, a signal should be sent back to the master controller with the time it was whacked.

So my question is what is the best way for the master controller to communicate with the moles? After doing some research, it seems to me that each mole should be an N+2 with a Edimax BR-6258n wireless router running the NeonMika webserver. However, my concern is speed. Would Bluetooth be a better option or maybe one of the Xbee protocols? What about using a Mini instead of a N+2?