… just need some firmware….
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A day for what a pick and place machine would have done in less than an hour. Dear Santa give me a pick an place machine for Christmas…
Anyway a god day here at the Paradise of the Frog. A vision from 1979 is realized today. The Beijing card is much the same as the one sketched down on some papers back then. To expensive to realize at the time of course. Not so today. Dreams come true and so do CAN4VSCP building blocks.
Cards built today include
Beijing a general I/O card.
Accra a general counter card.
Vilnius a general A/D card.
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A little hack later…
and the prototype board at least works and can be used for further development. An extra Ethernet port just looks impressive, don’t you think? 😉 Not to mention the one glued up side down. And the thing is still usable as a wifi <-> CAN4VSCP board. Hmmm… The testing goes on.
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More Odessa for the world
Do you feel bored sometimes? Want to have as fun as those guys waving rainbow flags. No need to be bored anymore. Now you can make VSCP Works configuration view look like this
This is possible now when VSCP Works support the fgcolor and bgcolor attributes for the register tag. That is pride for you. Yes we believe in all colors. 🙂
Support also added for a type attribute which can create register rows for all decision matrix row in one reg tag and there is a block type to that can be used for other repeating registers. Good if you are both proud and lazy. Colors and laziness on the same day. WOW!
Read all about it in the manual.
Odessa by the way is our latest product. Mount on a DIN rail or screw up on a wall. Read all about Odessa here. Great for your next prototyping project. Available in a 3.3V and a 5V versions. While you check Odessa out also check out Frankfurt RS-232 which actually is Frankfurt USB also as an USB interface is included free of charge. Connects you to the CAN4VSCP bus. Works great with Raspberry Pi, Carambola or Beaglebone in case you wounder.
Cheers
/Ace
ps Haven’t heard about VSCP.? Go here http://www.vscp.org ds
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Another one
Now the Frankfurt RS-232 module fully works in two of its three modes. The slcan mode still remains and so does the Linux driver for the can4vscp serial protocol . This is now next on the agenda together with documentation and all that stuff. If all goes well things will be fully in place late next week so we can start to produce it the week after.
The can4vscp serial driver is a general VSCP serial driver that can be used to couple all sorts of devices to a VSCP system over a serial link. We will supply some reference designs for Arduino and some more.
As said above Frankfurt have three protocols built in.
1.) A verbose protocol that can be used as a command line protocol to diagnose and find/configure VSCP nodes on a bus.
2.) A can4vscp serial protocol that is a very efficient and secure serial protocol.
3.) Slcan to be able to connect the unit to socketcan on Linux.
The module will be delivered with a usb to serial adapter but can also work over just RS-232. We will also supply a 3.3V TTL version than can connect directly to the Raspberry Pi serial port, or the Beagalbone serial port or the Carambola serial port making it easy to add can4vwscp capabilities to those devices.
The price will be good and low.
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Hmmmm
To leave the device I am working with turned on during Christmas and then live until now when I again have time to come back to the project was not a good idea. Hmmm… does not work. A short somewhere. But where? A long night ahead.
The verbose mode of the Frankfurt RS-232 CAN4VSCP adapter makes it easy to diagnose a CAN4VSCP bus without any other tools other than the adapter and a terminal program. Registers can be read/written on remote nodes, the interfaces opened in listen, normal and loopback mode and you can even search nodes on the bus. And in addition to the loopback mode there is the CAN4VSCP driver mode which works with the VSCP Daemon and VSCP Works and SLCAN mode which works with SocketCan on Linux.
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CAN4VSCP RS-232 prototype #VSCP
Time to test.