Archive for September, 2009
Friday, September 25th, 2009
New #WidgetBoard boot loaders available for download
New boot loaders for the WidgetBoards have been uploaded to both SVN and to the downloads area. The fuse settings have also been updated in the documentation.
I’ve also integrated the Atmega328P version of the WidgetBoard into the Arduino development environment so please update your boards.txt with the one from SVN.
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
#WidgetMesh gateway now online!
I have successfully re-compiled and re-flashed the firmware source to remove the console on ttyS0, as suspected the console attached to ttyS0 was the root of my problems, now avrdude will talk to the WidgetBoard!
and here is my WidgetBoard booting my test blinky on ContikiOS as seen by the gateway ttyS0
now back to [...]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
#WidgetMesh Gateway continued…
I’ve had some mixed success with the serial port hack on the Airlive device since my previous post.
After setting up the uclib development environment I have now successfully compiled avrdude so I can program the RFM12WidgetBoard located inside the device, however I had a couple of issues when trying to talk to the WidgetBoard.
Nothing happens [...]
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
WidgetMesh Coordinator/Gateway Device
The WidgetMesh network development for the Widgets is now underway, the last couple of days I’ve been learning how everything fits together in Contiki OS, as far as drivers go and how they communicate with the upper stacks, lots of looking through existing code. I now have a reasonable idea of how things should work [...]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Contiki OS port progress.
I’ve just committed my current progress on porting Contiki Operating System to the RFM12WidgetBoard to SVN.
Serial working
LED API implemented.
Event timers now working.
Added blinky example that demonstrates all of the above.
Now compiling to 5166 bytes of flash and using 387 bytes of ram.
Next step is SPI and RFM12B drivers!
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Update…Yes I’m still here!
I’m still alive…… Its been awhile between blog entries, unfortunately this is the busiest time of the year for me at work, the few months after the Australian financial year, projects are kicking off due to funding etc. There is however light at the end of the tunnel and I’m hoping to get back to [...]
