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I thought about that too the protocol has already been done. Have a look on codeshare

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Now that would be cheating ! :wink:

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This, you mean?

http://www.tinyclr.com/codeshare/entry/412

Surprisingly simpleā€¦will definitely have to give it a go, since I donā€™t have to R/E the protocol. :smiley:

Thanks for the pointer!

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I hate those friends and family clausesā€¦

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Was not sure if that was a rhetorical question so I googled :slight_smile: is it maybe a gadgeteer module connecting to this

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@ taylorza - iā€™m amazed you were the first to biteā€¦

Board looks really coolā€¦

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@ Justin - when I saw the name G-imp I remembered seeing these sometime back. That will be a pretty cool module.
What was that prize again, what a Cobra II you say :slight_smile:

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@ taylorza - send me an emailā€¦ justin at ingenuitymicro dot com

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@ Taylorza Spot on! although the name did kind of give it away. :slight_smile:
Anyway here is a sneak peek.
The G-Imp is an interface module that allows you to plug in an Electric Imp http://www.electricimp.com. It is a U socket module so it will give you Uart comms to the imp and from there on to the web and cloud services etc via the on board Imp wifi.

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Very nice! Yeh the name did give it away :slight_smile: After seeing Eagle mentioned so many times on the forums I finally decided to take the plunge and install it. I must admit I was totally lost, how do you get from that blank screen to the kind of stuff you guys are doing? I had to go and write a few lines of code to rebuild my self esteem after that :slight_smile:

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@ HughB - Good to know! I almost started working on an Imp module during Christmas break then talked myself out of it :slight_smile:

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Priceless

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Another good reason for the module forum.

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Hehehe i think the module makers forum would be a good idea so we donā€™t have any overlaps :slight_smile:

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My secret weapon was taking one of the existing GHI modules, for which Eagle design files were available, and stripping out everything but the socket, and starting from that. Of course, absent the advice from folks like @ Architect, my board probably wouldā€™ve been twice as large as it needed to be, and more expensive to produce.

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I have started with tutorials from SparkFun. That was it.

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I did one of the spark fun tutorials which got me started. @ justin has been a massive help too.

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Starting a new thread for this moduleā€¦

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@ Devhammer, @ Architect and @ HughB, thanks for the pointers I will definitely take a look at the sparkfun tutorials over the weekend. Devhammer, I like the idea of taking an existing module design apart, I will give that a shot.

You guys do not know what you have started, now you are never going to hear the end of me asking questions :slight_smile:

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Thats basically what i did for the Imp module only the other way round, i took an existing board added a socket and holes etc.