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DuinoMiteMegaAn
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Progress report? Estimated delivery date for this PDF?

I can only guess, on a few items, by reading the schematics.
 
Olimex
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99% complete :)

will upload it on our web in few hours, as English is not my native language it may be not quite polished, so I rely to Mick to go through it and translate it from BulEnglish to normal English, so the edited version will be updated in few days.
There is also list of demo codes and examples which will be add in the manual in next few days.
 
DuinoMiteMegaAn
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Great - if possible, mark this user manual as "preliminary"
for other users to know that further updates will follow. Edited by DuinoMiteMegaAn 2011-12-07
 
Olimex
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it's on the web now, be warned that it's still not complete and the edited version will be on the web in few days.
I'll work something more on the code examples now.
 
herbnz

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Hi
Many thanks for this Manual. Initial impressions after a quick look over are very positive. Bulenglish is a great deal better than Chinenglish.

Herb
 
donmck

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  herbnz said   Hi
Many thanks for this Manual. Initial impressions after a quick look over are very positive. Bulenglish is a great deal better than Chinenglish.

Herb


Not as good as sparkEnglish ...///...

Hi Sparkey!

Cheers Don...
https://www.dontronics.com
 
djuqa

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Link to the Current version??
VK4MU MicroController Units
 
DuinoMiteMegaAn
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On a silver platter ....

The schematic of current revision of DuinoMite-Mega is at http://www.olimex.com/dev in DUINO
section, there you can also find the CAD schematic and board files.


Note there is no direct link but the link above is close. Just scroll down
the page and you will find the doc's. Cheers. Edited by DuinoMiteMegaAn 2011-12-07
 
djuqa

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  DuinoMiteMegaAn said   On a silver platter ....

The schematic of current revision of DuinoMite-Mega is at http://www.olimex.com/dev in DUINO
section, there you can also find the CAD schematic and board files.

Have them, need WORDS
VK4MU MicroController Units
 
Olimex
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Revision 1.1. is now on the web with examples for MOD-GPS and MOD-BT
This evening will continue with MOD-GSM
 
JohnS
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It's good!

I've put some ideas in a post on Ken's site so hope they'll be considered.

John
 
Olimex
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thanks for the feed back, I do consider to put the ODT source for download too, so the community could also fix errors and incompletenes in the user manual, just have to figure out how to handle situations when two users work on same revision and submit corrected files at same time.
 
paceman
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  Olimex said   thanks for the feed back, I do consider to put the ODT source for download too, so the community could also fix errors and incompletenes in the user manual, just have to figure out how to handle situations when two users work on same revision and submit corrected files at same time.

Maybe users edit it using Word with 'tracking' turned on. They submit to you and when you receive it you accept (or not) the revisions and then post the updated version to start the cycle all over again.

Greg
 
Olimex
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Revision 1.03 is on the web, UEXT board examples are add, Mick translated it from bulEnglish to British so it should be more understandable for English people now
if one wants the ODT source it's available at OLIMEX site
note that editing it with WORD will lead to lost formating and images may be lost too.

I use LibreOffice but OpenOffice will also work without problem.

If you have ideas or suggestions which to be implemented let me know.
 
bigmik

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  paceman said  
  Olimex said   thanks for the feed back, I do consider to put the ODT source for download too, so the community could also fix errors and incompletenes in the user manual, just have to figure out how to handle situations when two users work on same revision and submit corrected files at same time.

Maybe users edit it using Word with 'tracking' turned on. They submit to you and when you receive it you accept (or not) the revisions and then post the updated version to start the cycle all over again.

Greg


Quite frankly opening the manual for everyone to edit would be a huge mistake, you would get too much inconsistency of both content and English.

Releasing the source is odt is ok but additions to the formal manual would need to be submitted to one source and added by Olimex or their defined agent.

Regards

Mick
Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<<
 
Olimex
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Yes, we learned this the hard way :)

The manual is available in source form as if someone wants to use part or in whole the information inside he can do this easily when he have the source.

The system may be like this:

I'll keep the main source which will update to our web.

If one have update - correction or suggestions to be add he can e-mail me and I and Mick will review / English check these before I put in the source ODT file.
 
cmichaelcouch
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I too want to thank you for this maual.

I had a couple suggestons...
1. Label a photo of the boards with connector labels. There are some connectors on my duinomite-mini that I can not identify and the jumpers. and the GPIO pin numbering. I had to find a mangifying glass to find the pin 1 and 2 labels on it.

I know I have read somewhere what these are but it would be nice to have them labeled in the manual.

Great work. I especially like the way you included examples with the command words of MMBasic. Reminds me of the early IBM DOS, BASIC and dBaseII manuals. Not that is how it is done.

Michael Couch
 
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  cmichaelcouch said   I too want to thank you for this maual.

I had a couple suggestons...
1. Label a photo of the boards with connector labels. There are some connectors on my duinomite-mini that I can not identify and the jumpers. and the GPIO pin numbering. I had to find a mangifying glass to find the pin 1 and 2 labels on it.

I know I have read somewhere what these are but it would be nice to have them labeled in the manual.

Great work. I especially like the way you included examples with the command words of MMBasic. Reminds me of the early IBM DOS, BASIC and dBaseII manuals. Not that is how it is done.

Michael Couch


Thanks for your kind comments Michael (great name )

Yes I agree a `clean' overlay outline for each board would be a great addition to the Manual and I will talk to Tsvetan about this for addition to the next version of it. There are several new commands that Ken has written that we need to add to the manual anyway.

The one concern is that adding pictures adds to the size of the manual but then if that was deemed to be the case than a ADDENUM manual can be done for those things.

I will contemplate my navel and see what we can come up with

regards,

Mick
Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<<
 
djuqa

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DuinoMiteMegaAn
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