Received my Fez Domino and its great, except that it’s already giving me problems with my WiFly Shield
When i plug the WiFly into my Arduino Mega the leds on the shield immediately starts blinking, but when i try the same with the Fez Domino no leds light up on the shield. When i put the shield back on the Arduino the blinking lights are back on it.
I then downloaded the WiFly Shield drivers for the Fez and tried them, which left me with a “Failed to init SPIUART chip” exception ??
Arduino doesn’t have 3.3V+5V but FEZ Domino has both voltage…
Now, when sparkfun designed the wifly shield they didn’t have 3.3V because they didn’t have domino back then and so they had to add their own 3.3V regulator on the shield!
Se the schematics http://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/DevTools/Arduino/Wifly_Shield-v14.pdf
So, now you have 2 options:
Just plug in a power pack in the power connector (good option for beginners)
remove the 3.3V regulator off the shield and then add a small wire to get 3.3V right from FEZ Domino (good option for experienced users)
Are you going to make a driver for the Wifly and enter it in the contest?
Yup, when i supplied 5V for the Vin instead of the Vin from the Fez, lights were flashing nicely
it sucks though, the WiFly Shield wont work without jumper cables on either Arduino Mega or Fez, kinda defeats the purpose of a shield
ah well, it seems to be working now , just doesnt look very clean with 6 jumper cables and 6 extra headers stacked on top of a couple of screwterminal boards
i still need the WiFly to work on both Arduino and Fez, so no modding the shield for me …
What you are measuring on VIN is just floating voltage.
[quote]should i steal 5V for the Vin pin on the WiFly or what ?
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I already gave you the 2 options you need to solve your problem
VIN in our case the power coming from the power connector. Maybe the mega uses 5V as a VIN?
I will give you a third option, if you have a diode then ad a diode to forward the voltage from 5V to VIN…you must use a diode to protect VIN from feeding back to 5V!
Why do you have 6 jumpers? I do not understand
All you have to do is place the wifly shield on top of FEZ Domino and it will work fine (you will need one of the 3 options to get power to VIN, but that is one simple wire to add)
I stacked the digital pins and the analog pins on 2 sets of headers and a screw terminal board, and the i jumpered the power pins straight through from the Fez except for the Vin which i took from 5V on the screw terminal board. It was the fastest as i donr have another power source right now, and dont want to mod anything permanently