Arduino wifi sheilds.
Started by nirav, Aug 04 2010 07:55 PM
5 replies to this topic
#1
Posted 04 August 2010 - 07:55 PM
First of all, just wanted to say that I'm very excited that you've released the Netduino. As a veteran C# developer, I've been looking into starting some personal AVR projects. Arduino is a great platform, but I wanted to leverage my prior C# experience, instead of learning a brand new language and dev tools. Thanks again, this product looks like the perfect fit for me.
Now onto my question - My first project is going to require some type of wireless access for collecting data remotely. Ethernet is out of the question due to the layout of my house. A quick google search revealed that there are quite a few Wifi Arduino shields available. The popular ones are from Asynclabs and Sparkfun.
Would it be possible to use one of the Asynclabs wifi shields out of box with a .net micro framework? I have zero experience writing drivers.
Here are two of the shields that I am interested in. Of course I'll welcome any other recommendations you might have.
http://asynclabs.com...6&category_id=6
http://www.sparkfun....roducts_id=9367
thanks!
#2
Posted 04 August 2010 - 10:35 PM
Hi folks,
I'm also very excited about the Netduino and the .NET goodness that it brings to the AVR microcontrollers .
Along the same lines as nirav's question - is there (or will there be) support for the XBee wireless Arduino shields?
For example:
http://www.sparkfun....roducts_id=8664
Thanks, and I can't wait until my Netduino board arrives!
I'm also very excited about the Netduino and the .NET goodness that it brings to the AVR microcontrollers .
Along the same lines as nirav's question - is there (or will there be) support for the XBee wireless Arduino shields?
For example:
http://www.sparkfun....roducts_id=8664
Thanks, and I can't wait until my Netduino board arrives!
Thanks,
~ David ~
~ David ~
#3
Posted 05 August 2010 - 04:52 AM
On WiFi shields: these would need some sort of driver--since they're using a proprietary SPI connection to drive the network, not an integrated networking stack.
Are there specific ones you've seen used that are really high quality...and we could start a project to build drivers for them? We have some ideas on how to integrate it...
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On XBee shields: there is a lot of .NET Micro Framework code out there, including some for XBee. I think the following project may have samples. Regardless, the XBee's are serial--so as long as you talk the "XBee language" (through an existing class or a new one), and as long as they accept 3V3 serial signals, you're good to go.
Check out this project: http://mftoolkit.codeplex.com/ Does it have what you're looking for?
Chris
#4
Posted 05 August 2010 - 06:15 AM
Thanks, Chris, I'll take a look at the mftoolkit.
Worst case, I suppose it probably wouldn't be too difficult to port an existing Arduino XBee library (although I haven't seen the source code).
Thanks!
Thanks,
~ David ~
~ David ~
#5
Posted 05 August 2010 - 06:43 AM
There is a .NET Micro Framework extension library project on the Codeplex called Grommet [^] that contains 'Asynchronus API XBee library' to communicate with XBee modules. I have not used it personally, though.Worst case, I suppose it probably wouldn't be too difficult to port an existing Arduino XBee library
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