Meeting with our Specialists 9

Post no.20

Tutors Present: Yee Siang & Jam

So today I brought my TM router and boards for my 10.30 Am tutorial. Yee Siang was testing out my router but we couldn't get it to work because the default password (blank space) for the D-Link wouldn't get through although we reset it a thousand times.

Finally he opted that I get a cheap TP Link router from lowyat at RM79. Their product lists is HERE.
He suggested that I didn't need to get the 3G/Unifi router. I could just get AP/ROUTER/Repeater.

Then Yaw walked in and he brought in the exact same router we were talking about! His project needed wireless connections too for his web sockets.

He tested Yaw's router and it worked perfectly!

One thing he said to us is that we should reserve the IP address for our wireless device if not they're just going to keep refreshing whenever we restarted our machines.

Finally after

3 weeks, my parts from China arrived!
My two FTDI boards, Arduino Lilypad and two RGB leds arrived safely.

HOWEVER, I realised I bought the wrong FTDI cable because I bought the one with teeth on it. My arduino had teeth on it as well. So how are teeth and teeth going to connect to each other?

I was supposed to get THIS ONE!

But instead I ordered THIS ONE!

See? The Arduino has teeth too.

Jam came to my rescue and loaned me some cables so I didn't need to re-buy the parts. Thank you Jam.

So, I used the female-female cables to connect them. I was so relieved. Jam also borrowed me 4 makey makey alligator clips for my testings.

CURRENT UPDATED EXPENDITURES:

I found some videos that could get me started with the connections:

This one sends data from the computer to the the Xbee:

This one receives data from the xbee to the computer:

Happiness Level : 6

References

Arduino, (n.d.). Arduino - ArduinoBoardLilyPad. [online] Available at: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardLilyPad [Accessed 15 Aug. 2014].

Gravitech, (n.d.). Arduino LilyPad/Pro/ProMini Programmer. [online] Available at: http://www.gravitech.us/arliandpropr.html [Accessed 15 Aug. 2014].

Jung, C. (2014). Lilypad Arduino Xbee Communication (Receiving Data). [online] YouTube. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LesKsP5-olM [Accessed 15 Aug. 2014].

Jung, C. (2014). Lilypad Arduino Xbee Communication (Sending Data). [online] YouTube. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjg4oRwSDE0 [Accessed 15 Aug. 2014].

Pricelists. (2014). 1st ed. [ebook] Malaysia, p.1. Available at: http://images-cdn.lowyat.net/pricelists/PCHardware/C-Zone/pchardware-czone.pdf [Accessed 15 Aug. 2014].

TaoBao, (n.d.). 【Realplay】USB转TTL 支持3.3V 5V双电源FT232RL FTDI MWC调试器. [online] Available at: http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.1.hUAnPU&id=26917352895&ad_id=&am_id=&cm_id=140105335569ed55e27b&pm_id= [Accessed 15 Aug. 2014].