Hi,
My son and I have recently acquired a handful of LEDuino64LS Boards with light strips and would greatly appreciate it if someone could give us a hand. My son is in university taking computer science and the plan is to use them to make projects for educational purposes. Information is very rare on the internet for these boards due to the vintage (2008 ??) and all that I have been able to gather so far is that the board uses an Atmega 644P, it has a header for CAN-BUS and also a 14 pin header to drive LED Strips. They were connected to Praecipuus 2203-3005 (12 LED) strips dating back to 2008. The board is also labelled Silicon Railway SI2230. We have searched for schematics, pinouts, etc .. to no avail and looked for Siliconrailway site, but it appears that the site is now defunct as the domain is for sale, indicating to us that the company no longer exists. In any case, any help and/information on this board(s) would be greatly appreciated. Please post or you can PM us at Thomas@tmlwireless.com
Thanks so much in advance to anyone willing to give us a hand in bringing these back to life as they appear to be an excellent board with neat features.
It may not be worth the trouble. I suppose the 1st thing to do would be to plug-in the USB (I'm assuming it has a USB port) and see if you can download & run the Blink Example. Of course, that will permanently wipe-out any existing program.
Otherwise you could "ohm it out", draw the schematic, and treat it as a "raw" microcontroller on a board. (I had no trouble finding the datasheet for the Atmega 644P.) Hopefully it has some kind of programming port.
Hi, thanks for the response. Yes it does have a USB Mini connector and I am now trying different older versions of the ide to see if I can upload the BLINK program to it as the newer IDE doesn't seem to want to load and probably because it's an older ATMRGA chip
Might have to use the older versions of the IDE ??
Yeah, looks like it and I will keep flogging hrough. Tried IDE 0015, 1.0.5, 0022 to no avail Further research revealed that the board was designed by "John, The Geek" or TORONTOGEEK and will have to try and find him since he is aparenly still on this forum ???
As mentioned in an earlier post the data sheet is available. Might have to get the magnifying glass out and reverse engineer this thing.
I've never heard of this board but I just started a couple years ago with Arduino.
I'm sure what ever teaching uses this is for can probably be done with the uno
Yeah, I might have to Rev-Eng the thing and will although wait to see if anyone else has some info. since I have a dozen of these things along with a bag of LED strips. Since they apparently do CAN-Bus on board which would be nice to tinker with and seems a shame to scrap them. Thanks for the reply.
Based on the microcontroller used and the time period, I suspect it uses the Sanguino pin mapping. The original Sanguino hardware package is here:
The more actively developed MightyCore also has support for the Sanguino pinout (Tools > Pinout > Sanguino):
You can see the Sanguino pinout here:
I don't think you'll have any trouble getting these boards working.
I happen to collect Arduino variants for the ATmega644P's family of microcontrollers. I have documented all known boards and pin mappings here:
I'd be surprised if your board doesn't follow one of those pin mappings. On the other hand, there has been a plague of people making up their own non-standard Arduino pin mappings for these processors so maybe I shouldn't be so confident.
Hi,
Can you post a picture of the LEDuino boards please?
I found this document, but not sure if it is your controller.
Tom..
LEDuino Users Manualv0.75.pdf (473 KB)
Thanks SO much for all the info and attached is a photo of the board. It's different than the pdf and maybe someone has some info on it.
Thomas
Cool. Not at all what I imagined in my head
Yes, it's a very peculiar board and still struggling with it and now looking at drawing (mapping out) all the input and output pins and then I will try to program it via the ISP header