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vasi Guru  Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
That was ... Maximite!  Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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sparkey Senior Member  Joined: 15/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 819 |
did the jumper wires and does not work still i dont know .... technicians do it with least resistance |
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donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
Did you do the track cuts and code changes sparkey? Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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| sparkey Senior Member Joined: 15/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 819 |
fact that i have stated this all ready and they will look at this as spamming...there is no hard ware defect with the kb lcd.. if i plug it into the cross then attatch it to my altronics it works fine and when i power it up ..the disply comes up with "dontronics duino cross or something to that effect...when i plug it into the dyna..it does not display any thing ...shouldent i get some writing on the lcd screen... technicians do it with least resistance |
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
All you have told me is that you have done the jumpers Sparkey, so I have to ask one more time. As per the instructions at: http://www.themaximitecomputer.com/duinomite-to-lcd-and-butt ons-arduino-shield-modifications/ Make sure you look at the new pictures I posted, and tell me you looked at the new pictures I posted last night. 1) did you do the 2 track cuts? 2) did you do the 2 jumpers? 3) did you do the 2 code changes? If the answer is no to any of these, then it won't work. Is the answer is yes to all of these questions? If it is, then I'll go deeper into it with you in private, by email or phone. I have one working, Mick has one working. Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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| sparkey Senior Member Joined: 15/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 819 |
i have it working.... technicians do it with least resistance |
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
and? https://www.dontronics.com |
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| sparkey Senior Member Joined: 15/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 819 |
and the rtc is still functioning and i also have the day set right... technicians do it with least resistance |
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CircuitGizmos Guru Joined: 08/09/2011 Location: United StatesPosts: 1425 |
Wow. You sure go out of your way to help, Don. Way out of your way. You post. You clarify things. You make step by step lists. You recruit others to help. You do a fantastic amount of work. You have done an obviously thankless job. Micromites and Maximites! - Beginning Maximite |
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| sparkey Senior Member Joined: 15/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 819 |
and i can run program`s from a drive in hy term i guess ken fixed that too ...i am used to having enemy`s as i dont have any fereinds i get used to it....and yes i have a mental illness un fortunatley.... technicians do it with least resistance |
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
I guess we will never know why it didn't work. Perhaps I should take up something a little safer, like sky diving. 
Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2914 |
Hi Sparkey, I missed this quote earlier.. think you mis-read the schematic... It is +3.3v not negative 3.3v It appears on pin 1 of the UEXT connector and should have been able to supply power for your RTC cct. Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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| sparkey Senior Member Joined: 15/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 819 |
weird now i cant run programs from a : in hy-term maybe its not fixed got to do a few more tests ..and thanks don for helping the blind see ...and thanks mick also i thought that there should have been a positive voltage there and that must also be a ground as well .... technicians do it with least resistance |
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| sparkey Senior Member Joined: 15/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 819 |
ok this is what i did :: i powered up the maxi ...opened up a hy-term session...swapped to vga as i have a kvm switch and ran a read prog for the "Rtc" swapped back to hy-term typed new....changed to drive A ...did a list of files ::then ran a file read for the rtc and bingo it worked...in a drive in hy-term... technicians do it with least resistance |
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| sparkey Senior Member Joined: 15/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 819 |
i have just up graded to 2pont7 "ksd" and the firm is working...on the duino mite mega of corse ...others have prolly already done so its not a biggie.,.. technicians do it with least resistance |
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djuqa Guru Joined: 23/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 447 |
I just got my DuinoMite (& SM1) From DonTronics BTW Delivery from Dontronics was FAST Ok Several questions and points of interest arise about the DuinoMite board. 1/ What happened to the sound on the Olimex board? 2/ What executive decision was made to use 2 Identical Connectors for the UEXT and Ext1 connections. Not a good concept. 3/ Except for the 2 above niggles, brilliant design elements, you can see it was well made. 4/ I love the enclosed documentation. 
5/ I love the packaging 6/ Overall 8 out of 10 The discussions about the original MaxiMite and the DuinoMite are good, it will hopefully bring about a much improved firmware and software versions that recognises the different hardware configurations. Remember EDISON Promoted the use of Direct Current, However Westinghouse Promoted Alternating Current. What do we now USE, but who do we remember? Geoff GRAHAM is legendary for creating the MAXIMITE. DuinoMite can/will/should co-exist for the advantages it offers. The Maximite/DuinoMite/????Mite/Vegemite boards Forever. VK4MU MicroController Units |
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| Olimex Senior Member Joined: 02/10/2011 Location: BulgariaPosts: 226 |
1/ Ken will answer this :) but from time to time sound comes in and on the next compilation goes away. I guess some #ifdef problem when he compile the firmware plays bad joke with the sound. Ken is working on new revision with many new features and when he make production release he cut these features which are not finished from the source, which cause such glitches. 2/ the idea is to may hide inside the enclosure some modules like the MOD-RTC and to use other on the outer side connector. This is possible when the modules do not share same interface like MOD-RTC use I2C but MOD-BT for instance use SERIAL interface 4/  will be fixed by the end of this week, I hope the waiting with worth
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
What David means is the standard DM board Tsvetan. There was a thread about it yesterday, and Mick offered to send me a picture to help explain it on the product page. It was also suggested that a sticker on the connector may be a good idea. But I'm sure there are many Olimex boards, and other manufacturers, that use the same headers on the same boards for very different operations. Not saying it is a good concept, just saying it is a common practice. Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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| djuqa Guru Joined: 23/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 447 |
[quote=olimex]1/ Ken will answer this :) but from time to time sound comes in and on the next compilation goes away. I guess some #ifdef problem when he compile the firmware plays bad joke with the sound. Ken is working on new revision with many new features and when he make production release he cut these features which are not finished from the source, which cause such glitches.[/quote] So the official testing procedure for any revision is to wait and see if anyone complains. OK! 
Just so I understand you & KSD are following current normal software practice. Benchtesting, checklists and in-house testing pre-release are so 1980's Maybe a Common design practice, But never a GOOD usability practice VK4MU MicroController Units |
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| Olimex Senior Member Joined: 02/10/2011 Location: BulgariaPosts: 226 |
Hi David, I'm sorry if you are disapointed, but Duinomite is just an open source fun hobby project - same as MaxiMite. It's not Android nor iPhone which to go through extensive testings and many man-years work to their release. DuinoMite is *development board* piece of hardware which you can program by different means - C, Pinguino, MM-BASIC... Some things may move slower and all the hardware functionality may not be completely covered yet by the firmware based on MM-BASIC, but still Duinomite-Mega is great piece of hardware for EUR 30! If you want to develop something and this is not possible in MM-BASIC you can still do this with the free C32 Microchip compiler or the Pinguino IDE. The later already have many libraries including Zigbee support and Android ADK, Ethernet is in development too. DuinoMite is for sale for less than month, but the acceptance for this board is very well, as I wrote this is great piece of hardware and some people buy it without intend to use MM-BASIC at all. What I'm seeing is that Duinomite community increases with every day, more and more people have access to this board and we are yet to see many new projects which use Duinomite in this or that way. Yes we still have no user manual for the Basic but will have it by the end of this week, we were too busy to release the hardware, to do functional testing so we make sure our customer will receive quality and working hardware, then we had to work on the enclosure etc. we are with limited man power and English is not Olimex's native language, so the user manual really was not top priority as the DuinoMite basic is 100% compatible with MM-Basic and you can use Geoff's manual meantime, just look the different PIN() assignments written on this forum and in the document on our web. the only difference now in DM-Basic is that there are also COM3 and COM4 in addition to COM1 and COM2 which MaxiMite have and the PIN() assignments. all other is 100% same as MM-BASIC. Tsvetan |
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