There has been quite a flurry of development revolving around the official ethernet shield recently. Here are what I consider a few of the more important changes. Ethernet fixes – There are some connection issues with the ethernet library with regard to incomplete disconnects. Since the wiznet chip only supports 4 simultaneous connections, this manifests [...]
Category: Arduino, Code, Communication, Ethernet | 0 Comments »The Arduino team has recently released an Official Ethernet Shield. I was having trouble with my Adafruit XPort shield as you have to configure the XPort and it takes a lot of code to get it going. This Arduino stuff is supposed to be easy and fun, and the XPort is not. The official ethernet [...]
Tags: Ethernet, web server, xport
Category: Ethernet | 0 Comments »Several of my favorite Arduino/Freeduino stores have sent us in some giveaways for the con. We are not sure how we are going to be giving things out, as most are kits, I think we will be giving them out during our talk and during the tutorials going on during the day. Maybe get a [...]
Category: Freeduino, LCD, MotorShield, Phreaknic, WavShield, rbbb | 0 Comments »Found a rather neat shield for the Arduino environment, it’s called the TouchShield. Basicly it offers a fairly quick and easy way to display text, graphics and images from the Arduino. Not only is it a 128 x 128 OLED screen, it also is a touch screen! (hence the name…) Coming in at around $140, [...]
Tags: Arduino, OLED, shield, TouchShield
Category: Shields, TouchShield | 0 Comments »