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2.3. WiFly Shield
As Arduino Uno which plays
role of the motherboard is very
capable of talking and listening
(controlling I/O), it is not
equipped with key for this project
communication capability which
is wireless IEEE 802.11 protocol.
To achieve this requirement I was
forced to look for addition that
does. After few days of searching
I have come up with WiFly shield
form SparkFun Electronics that
allows to connect to the
802.11b/g wireless network.
The revision of WRL-09954
is an addition -131C
wireless module, an SC16IS750 chip and supporting components. The usage of SPI-to-
UART bridge accelerates The
only restriction, as the power is taken directly from Vin pin of the Arduino regulated to
3.3V, is the communication between WiFly shield and Arduino itself. The communication
goes over SPI using digital pins 10 to 13(CS, MOIS, MISO, SCLK respectively) what
makes them unusable for programming purposes. But, on the other hand, thanks to the
prototyping are spaced holes placed on the shield, I was able to place few
improvements without placing another printing shield what decreased the final dimensions.
The technical support came as:
-
5
-
6
- Schematics available in Appendix B
- experimental WiFly shield code library
7
which in the end I have decided not to
use,
5
http://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Wireless/WiFi/WiFlyGSX-um2.pdf
6
http://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Components/SMD/SC16IS740_750_760.pdf
Figure 6. WiFly SparkFun Arduino shield
[source:http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9954]
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