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Cool, thank you Steve for the measurements, as these will provide enough information to approximate the size of battery I will need
Would there be a way to send data from a Digital pin to a XBEE pin under those principles (for example, take data from pin D4 and send it to XBEE pin DIO4 to be transmitted wirelessly)?
Right now I am trying to using the XBEE port on the Mayfly to transmit data to the Digi Cloud service in order to graph sensor data wirelessly on-site. Moreover, I have been able to use transmit the data over the serial monitor, but this data is only characters not int or float values. After looking on the XBEE part of the Mayfly’s schematic, there does not appear to be DIO_ connections to digital pins.
So would there be a way to connect XBEE DIO_ pins to digital pins on the mayfly?
Done, thank you for the help
Ok, I have checked the datasheets to my sensors and none of them output a voltage greater than 3.3V (2 are digital sensors while another supplies a max of 2.4V), so thanks for the heads up.
Unfortunately, I do not have any experience replacing regulators on a SOT-23 surface mount, therefore I am curious on how soon this replacement process can occur or if you need me to do anything to start the process.
Ok, that sounds good. By the way thank you for being so helpful with the switch error, everything is working fine now
The mayfly acts in a similar way to other boards, such as Arduino, that can take analog and digital inputs and connect to the mayfly. Through my experimentation, what ever works on Arduino will also work on the mayfly
That sounds good, thank you for all of your help
Currently my computer is running on Windows 8, 32-bit, and i am connecting the Board using the provided USB cable from the starter kit, and 3 other cords still have the same problem. But, I haven’t tried programming the board using the FTDI port yet and can test that when I gather the equipment.
In regards to testing whether the switch removes power, using an external power supply with the pre-loaded flashing RED and GREEN LED program, tapping the switch (which causes the computer’s lack of recognition) does not effect the power supplied to the board. When I moved the loose switch around, while still in the ON position, the LED’s stayed ON. However, when I re-plugged the board into my computer, the board was no longer recognized.
So, I don’t think this is so much a power issue, but my board’s switch some how is interfering with the USB connection with the board’s respective Drivers.
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