Jan 04 2009
Building the Arduinome (Part III)
Today, I had some time to work on my Arduinome. I already have prepared the button and led matrix as well as the shield PCB two days ago. Initial tests with the current Arduinome firmware were not that successful, leading to a strange led patterns on power up, as well as random crashes of the software. So I was worried about some mistakes I did with the hardware. Checking all the leds and switches manually revealed that there were no mistakes on the hardware, therefore there had to be something wrong with the firmware. Some initial hacking on the firmware allowed me to test the hardware, and proofed that basically everything is working. My current guess is that the firmware is broken with the newest arduino framework. I will have a better look and try to fix it. Maybe I’ll even rewrite the firmware from scratch, not using the arduino framework. Stay tuned …
Hi from Germany,
Hey I already finished my Arduinome. But I had also some problems.
So, maybe my experiences can help you..
1. Note that you have to use the Arduino IDE version 11. Version 12 doesn’t work!
2. If you are using this wiring (link), note that the drawing is a bit wrong! have a look!
http://home.arcor.de/arrivalbest/wire_2.png
You have change the wires!!
good luck!
Nils.
Thanks for the hints! That’s exactly what I expected. Anyway, I’m thinking about re-implementing the firmware without the arduino framework to improve performance a bit and make it independent of the framework itself (version conflicts). But I guess I first just test with arduino 11 and see if that works and how it performs.