i made a very simple xport shield for xports and xport directs (or is it xports direct??) its not nearly as powerful as a wiznet or cs8900a, but maybe is good for basic projects?
i dunno, what do you think? :-?
its not nearly as powerful as a wiznet or cs8900a, but maybe is good for basic projects?
i dunno, what do you think? :-?
Seems like you're on a shield-designing frenzy... 
While I've never used an xport my impression is that for the moment it's still probably the easiest (although as you mention, not the most powerful) networking solution to get started with. (At a price.)
I'd really like to get the support for the WIZnet modules to a point where it's as easy or easier to do things with it--for both price and performance reasons--but it's currently still an ongoing project. 
--Phil.
its not nearly as powerful as a wiznet or cs8900a, but maybe is good for basic projects?
i dunno, what do you think? :-?Seems like you're on a shield-designing frenzy...
well, yknow once you get the FeCl bath going, you might as well etch a couple boards
Thats very cool, I could easily see writing a crude webserver for the arduino with this for reporting, or even device configuration.
heres the prototypes...so far so good, i have to go thru and test everything now, including all the flow control & GPIO junk 
you really are on a tear the last few weeks, will you be selling kits for these too? Any intention of doing the wireless xports?
not sure about the wiports/matchports, i have one but they're quite large and may not fit on a shield
Just for information, you need XPORT 03 to have 5V tolerant I/O (Data In, Data Out, CP1, CP2, CP3). If you have an older XPORT, then you need to do level conversion (5V to 3.3V for the signals going from the Arduino to the XPORT). I think XPORT Direct and Direct+ are newer devices and they are all 5V tolerant.
good point! i do know that the direct and direct+ are compliant, and i have a year old xport thats v3
http://www.lantronix.com/support/bulletins.html
implies that they've had v03 since at least 2004 and the cheapest ones that mouser carries are v3 so i expect 99% of people who are buying the shield will not have a problem
for the remaining 1% i can also show how to make a quick hack to adapt it (like 6 resistors)
& ill patch it in the next version of the PCB
These shields look really good. At the risk of sounding like a complete n00b, what basically is the difference in the xport and xport direct besides the fugly plastic case of the direct? The specs seem very similar so what am I missing?
B
nearly done with documentation... and in the shop! i also posted up some examples
http://www.ladyada.net/make/eshield
ladyada,
I'm using Xport for a project and I need to talk to my device by sending/receiving UART data through a webpage. I'm imagining a button or two for sending commands and a textbox for reading back data. Have you done any work like this with the Xport?