Hey there, so I am quite new to the arduino world, but excited to be getting into it.
I have a project where by it would be fabulous to regularly serve out data from the arduino and it's sensors etc. that is living in my backyard.
I've purchased the wifly module but was hestitant to buy the mondo expensive wifly shield as I've read lots of problems folks have seemingly had with it.
My bottom line question is could I mount the wifly module http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10822 with the antenna onto a protoshield SparkFun ProtoShield Kit - DEV-13820 - SparkFun Electronics via 10pin headers wired into the available bluesmirf contacts? would this be too limiting in that i'm really only using TX and RX? and if so would it be a big pain in my ass to make all those connections to the proper pinouts to be able to use the full functionality of the wifly?
Sorry if I sound like a dumbass, at this point I pretty much am, but am eager to get into the mess.
This is in no way an answer to my previous question, but more like another question.
I stumbled across this dfrobot IO Expansion Shield For Arduino(V5) IO Expansion Shield for Arduino v5 (Discontinued) - DFRobot. It is only 18 bucks and looks to be a pretty nice deal. It has the xbee form factor which has all the pinouts to match the wiFly module. Would this be a worthwhile solution? Anyone have any experience with this shield or could speculate on how it might work out?
I am using this combination, and it works great. Do a search for posts by me and you should find the project I was working on and code... It's a great cost effective alternative to a wifly shield.
I did not set up a web server on it, just a box that received udp codes and turned LEDs on or started up servo's.