WiFly GSX Breakout
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Description: We've revised the board by adding some LED indicators and also improving the overall performance of the board. This is a breakout board for the RN-131C WiFly GSX module, an ultra-low power 802.11b/g transceiver. This board breaks out all pins of the RN-131C to two 17-pin 0.1" pitch headers. Board comes fully assembled and tested as pictured.
get the time from the internet and automatically synchronise itself (why have to set the time and use a battery to keep it running when disconnected, if we have Internet access ?) Adding custom text wasn’t hard, I just had to insert a new mode in the state machine logic, and then to make it scroll I had to call a custom method from one of the interrupts occurring every millisecond that would move all the display[] array (containing the text currently displayed) one position to the left. VFD Clock Scrolling Hello World The ease with which I was able to insert new logic into the code, and get something working in literally a couple of hours, shows how nicely the code was initially written… all the logic is in one big file, which might seem hard to follow initially, but it’s nicely commented and divided into methods… thank you Ladyada !
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Sounds like a cool project! - There are some efforts out there on this kind of thing. It’ll include a USB driver layer as well as the wifi device driver… but would be really useful for a number of projects. jamesbird23 asked: Hey Tom, I'm working on a project using a WiFly shield to produce a WiFi signal map. I'm struggling to find away to strip out just the MAC address and the RSSI after a scan as they are the only pieces of data I need. Do you have any pointers you could give in going around this.
A wifi network able to deliver DHCP addresses is also expected. If it performs MAC-address filtering, you’ll need to add your WiFly’s MAC address (see below for ways to get it). Static addresses can also be handled but need to be explicitly set. Some changes to WebTime may be needed if you are testing against an ad-hoc network, or if you need to set a static IP address. See the program notes for details. It is a simple project, no special tools or abilities required beyond the usual: Soldering iron, solder, multimeter, breadboard, breadboard wires.
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Project OSHAS (Pronounced Ochase): Open Source Home Automation System Our first major project that let the user be really in control of his house and to simply and easily configure rules (automation) that the house can follow instantly, It's Web-based and Wireless so anywhere you are, your in control Here we got a little geekier and decided to use a watch the we bought made by Texas Instruments, which is actually a micro-controller in the shape of a watch, and control what we can with it
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A beginner’s guide to connecting and operating the WiFly to Arduino Serially
We were working on a home automation project , we used the wifly gsx in our project . When we bought it, we thought it will be easy to communicate it like a serial modem between the arduino and PC ,,, of course we are not noobs :) but every inch in the datasheet made us feel like one :) And when we searched for a solution for even one of our countless problems we faced.... the result can be summarized in three words ... WIFLY NOT WORKING or we are noobs :D
A beginner’s guide to connecting and operating the WiFly to Arduino Serially « Cairo|Hackerspace
We were working on a home automation project , we used the wifly gsx in our project . When we bought it, we thought it will be easy to communicate it like a serial modem between the arduino and PC ,,, of course we are not noobs but every inch in the datasheet made us feel like one And when we searched for a solution for even one of our countless problems we faced…. the result can be summarized in three words … WIFLY NOT WORKING or we are noobs Of course i am kidding ,,we are not noobs and wifly is WORKING , thanks to sparkfun wifly library and http://arduinology.tumblr.com/ First of all download the WiFly Serial Library from http://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinowifly/files/ credit goes Twaldock for making this library and examples, for more information go to http://arduinology.tumblr.com/ ,also download NewSoftSerial, Streaming, Time and PString libraries from http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Libraries
WiFly Driver for the Arduino platform Provides WiFi wireless communications for Arduino-based systems. Arduino 1.0 platform ============ TRADEMARKS ============ "WiFly", "RN-131","RN-171", "RN-174", "RN-XV" are trademarks / tradenames of Roving Networks Inc. "Arduino" is a trademark of Arduino LLC.
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A New Software Serial Library for Arduino News: NewSoftSerial is in the core! Starting with Arduino 1.0 (December, 2011), NewSoftSerial has replaced the old SoftwareSerial library as the officially supported software serial library.
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New users sometimes wonder why the “Arduino language” doesn’t provide the kind of concatenation or streaming operations they have become accustomed to in Java/VB/C#/C++, etc. lcd.print("GPS #"); lcd.print(gpsno); lcd.print(" date: "); lcd.print(day); lcd.print("-"); lcd.print(month); lcd.print("-"); lcd.println(year); // ugh!! The Streaming library gives you the option of compressing those into “insertion style” code that, if not exactly the same, is reminiscent of the concatenation above: This syntax is familiar to many, is easy to read and learn, and, importantly, consumes no resources.
The Time library adds timekeeping functionality to Arduino with or without external timekeeping hardware. It allows a sketch to get the time and date as: second, minute, hour, day, month and year. It also provides time as a standard C time_t so elapsed times can be easily calculated and time values shared across different platforms. The code is derived from the earlier Playground DateTime library but is updated to provide an API that is more flexible and easier to use.
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Since Print was introduced with Arduino 0012, several classes, including HardwareSerial, LiquidCrystal, Ethernet Client/Server, and my own NewSoftSerial , have been written to leverage its text rendering engine. But getting formatted text to output devices not in this short list still requires either writing custom code or turning to expensive alternative solutions like sprintf(). PString (“Print-to-String”) is a new lightweight Print-derivative string class that renders text into a character buffer.
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