Getting it working… but getting it wrong.
I lost the recycled Supercap I was going to use… so I have a timekeeper with a daughterboard for battery backup.
My own code did not work… luckily I found a DS1302 library… so at least that works…
So, I just counted… I now have 5 Arduino boards. These little toys are just so useful.
By far the coolest add-on I picked up so far is the Arduino Ethernet shield. This device is based on the Wiznet W5100 and it makes connecting to the wire a breeze with low Arduino overhead. You see, I made the mistake of trying to use the ENC28J60 Ethernet chip. A nice chip and Guido Socher did a great write up about it at TUX GRAPHICS… (http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200606/article06061.shtml) but you need to create the TCP/IP stack in software… that’s surely flexible… but not a very nice way to leave you some ram in your Arduino for what you ant it to do. I got frustrated with the ENC28J60 (I’d built a break out board) and just ordered the ETHERNET shield from NKC electronics. (Nice purchasing experience from NKC, and a real fine supporter of the Arduino community by the way)
Wow. This board is well made, well designed and simple to use. This opens up all sorts of neat possibilities. I just need to figure out which one gets priority.
“Floobydust” is a contemporary term derived from archaic Latin miscellaneous, whose disputed history probably springs from Greek origins (influenced, of course, by Egyptian linguists) — meaning here “a mixed bag.”
So, here is yet another web log. Of couse, I start “blogging” when blogging becomes considered to be something we did “yesterday”, but here I am. Actually, I’m just looking for a convenient method to share my ideas and plilosophies. Arriving late is better than not even trying, I suppose.
