I will post the pictures of the result this evening in my little blog.

And here they are: http://danimathblog.blogspot.de/2012/04/redfly-wifi-shield.html

best regards
Andreas

Moin James,

("moin" is is a usual greeting in the northern part of germany and means "good day"  )

I like to put the header pins into a breadboard and then put the board on top of that.  Solder a single pin to orient the board and pins to 90°.  After that I solder every other pin taking 10-15 seconds between pin to allow them to cool and keep the breadboard from getting too much heat.

This way is not possible here, because the pins have to be put through the shield and soldered on the other side - so this way I had to solder between breadboard and shield. Meanwhile I did it (with trembling fingers  ) and it worked quite well. I will post the pictures of the result this evening in my little blog.

That's one way.  You can also use a shield made to be cut up like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Add-Ohms-Arduino-Wuzzler-Shield/dp/B007APUR3I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335556644&sr=8-1

Exactly what I looked for! Thanks for link!

best regards
Andreas

Nur so'n Schuss ins Blaue: versorgst Du das Ganze nur über USB mit Strom, oder hast Du 'ne externe Stromversorgung? Ich hatte so einen Effekt mal, weil das ganze angeschlossen Zeugs zu viel Strom gezogen hat, und dann die Spannung zusammengebrochen ist. USB liefert nicht sooo viel.

viele Grüße
Andreas

Hi Arduinoiers,

hope this is the correct sub-forum, but this deals roughly about installation (I hope).

I've just got a Watterott Redfly shield, and I'm eager to start with it. But before I have to solder the pins. Do you have any advice how to do this, so that the shield fits afterwards onto the arduino? I'm a little afraid of askew pins (big hands, smoker, coffee ).

And the general question is: what do you do, if you use shields with pin conflicts? E.g. PWM/3 seems to be a popular pin on many shields. So do you change shields with knife and soldering iron? Or is there any other magic?

Cordialità/best regards/cordialement/viele Grüße
Andreas

Something like this http://luckylarry.co.uk/arduino-projects/arduino-processing-make-a-radar-screen-to-visualise-sensor-data-from-srf-05-part-1-setting-up-the-circuit-and-outputting-values/?

your thoughts

OK - here are my two cent: If it works for you and you are satisfied, then it's OK. It's (mostly ) well formatted - this helps to understand the program. I have only two remarks:

1. the for loops

Code:

for (n=255; n>0;)

are a little bit unusual. Why did you put the n-- into the loop and not into the for statement?

2. I think the part "if (firstcycle==false)" may go into the setup function (without the "if"). Then you can spare a boolean (not really necessary here, but memory on µC is tight  ).

Thumbs up!

best regards
Andreas

The US sensor SFR05 produces 40 kHz (if I remember correctly). Perhaps you can use it.

best regards
Andreas

Hi *,

before I spend money on a wrong idea, I want to ask: is it possible to let the arduino listen to two TCP ports? Preferably with wifi, or perhaps with the ethernet shield. The (not very finished) idea is to send commands via a sort of telnet (or perhaps UPD) and get some immediate feedback there, but have additionally a small web server to display (e.g.) the values on the analogue ports. The alternative solution would be the web server via ethernet and the "telnet" communication with xbees, but this is (for the moment) a little bit expensive (I have to convince my beloved "secretary of finances  ).

best regards
Andreas

...
Is there a way to capture the contents of the serial monitor window in a text file?
...

You can use another program instead of the serial monitor. If I have to save things in a text file I use putty.

best regards
Andreas

Because I cannot upload a video here, I just created a blog: Evil Spider in danimath's blog (no such stuff as in Barney's blog; does Dr. Sheldon Cooper has a blog?  )

Thanks! What's next ? I have some ideas:

First replace the 5mm LED in the hollow spider head with two 3mm LEDS (or smaller) directly in the eyes. I think the eyes will glow more clearly.

Then use a servo and more distance sensors, so that the spider turns in direction of a colleague passing by  ]. I wanted this first do with a velociraptor head, and if I find an adequate on, I will do it.

An own shield with a row of LEDs. The sketch is ready and works for LEDs on my breadboard.

Then I want to connect an Arduino with my RP6 robot, perhaps with Wifi or bluetooth.

And in the farther future: a LED cube, something like these interactive lightflowers by ullala, a weather station, ...

And additionally I have to earn some money for life 

best regards
Andreas

Hi all,

this is nothing compared to the other things here; but it's my first project off the breadboard. If someone approaches this spider, the ultra sonic sensor gets the distance and the eyes will begin to glow via PWM.

best regards
Andreas

Thanks, Danke, merci, gracie Mike! I've done this stuff 40 years ago, so the knowledge got a little bit rusty 

Andreas

Don't know GoBetwino, but when I look here: http://arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/GoBetwino I see in the list what we can do with it: "Read a file and return data to Arduino." Aren't there any examples in the package? (I've not downloaded it). Perhaps Processing will help? http://www.processing.org, too.

best regards
Andreas

No. Processing isn't supposed to set things on arduino, but you can do it - as with C, Java, Perl, Python, ....

Link: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Processing