Friday, May 9, 2008

XBee progress

I wired up the red XBee board to talk via a molex connector. It takes two jumper wires:
Tie pins 10-13 9-12

Six pin molex
From top:
+5
From XBee Dout
To XBee Din
x
x
gnd

Four pin molex

From top:
+5
From XBee Dout
To XBee Din
gnd

Helm 03 LED red is burned out; voltages look good, though.
Yellow LED is on (ON LED) , Red LED blinks (Associated) which matches Peter and Ted's.

I finished my send menu for the XBee harness. It incorporates checksums, and to the best of my knowledge is sending at 9600 baud (data appears on the SCI line) Decided not to go for interrupts; don't think it'll take too long or that we'll miss messages. We'll put the receive on an interrupt routine.

David out.

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