Boxtec send me an IBoard to test if StripInvaders could run on this board.
The IBoard from iteadstudio is a cheap (33 SFr.) alternative to the Arduino Ethernet (57 SFr.).
The IBoard, like the Arduino Ethernet, does not have a USB connection. So you need a USB/Serial adapter. The Arduino “USB 2 Serial Converter” is not compatible with the IBoard, as it needs 3.3v. Lucky me, I own a UartSBee which is compatible with the IBoard. Select “Arduino Duemilanova” as target board and you’re ready to upload the firmware.
Some details about the IBoard:
- Wiznet 5100 Ethernet driver
- Onboard Mini SDCard
- Not compatible with Arduino Shields
- 30.720 Bytes free ROM
Now how do I connect my LED Strip on the IBoard? I see only the analog output pins, but no digital output pins:
There is a 8 pin header in the middle of the board with some interesting connections:
D6 (Pin 7), D7 (Pin 5) and GND (Pin 1) can be used.
I started up the StripInvaders Config Tool and configured Data Pin 6 and Clock Pin 7, saved the config and StripInvaders was working fine!
Some links:
Auf dem XBoard 2 von DFRobot läuft StripInvaders übrigens auch, zumindest mit deaktiviertem DHCP.
Mit DHCP bricht das uploaden der Firmware gegen Ende ab, programmer out of sync. Muss ich mir heut abend mal anschaun :)
Hey,
can you help with the pin mapping. I need to connect a foca board to this iboard for loading sketches. Can you please help me.
whats the issue?
It’s that i need to know the pin mapping , so that it would make my programming easy. Basically i am not an electronics student. so, i feel it very difficult to find out, which pins of Atmega328 is connected to SDcard, then Wiznet, to Xbee shiled and which pins are left out for us to use. If you help me out, it would be very useful.
is it possibel to use a arduino ethernet shield v3 instead off the arduino ethernet board ?
Yes, it’s perfectly valid.
Warum denkst du, dass man nur D7 und D6 benutzen kann? Habe mit allen 6 Pins (D3,7,6,8,5,2) und dem LED Blink Sketch erfolg gehabt. Das würde das Board zu den 8 Analog noch mit zusätzlich 6 Digitalen Ports ausrüsten :-)
I used D6 and D7 as an example, there are of course other pins you might want to use.