14. Networking and communications¶
For this week’s assignment, we looked at Networking and Communication .This week looked at the following:
Group assignment:¶
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Send a message between two projects.
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Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned.
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Group Project Link
Individual assignment:¶
- Design, build, and connect wired or wireless node(s) with network or bus addresses
Group Assignment Reflection¶
For this weeks assigment we looked at communicating between two microcontoller boards I created. I reviewed two of my fellow Fab Academy students Nervene Bhagwandass & Marvin Holloway to learn from thereexperiences. I also reviewed the student who they both drew inspiration from for this project Adreian Torres.However, as Fab Academy is fast paced and efficient use of time is critical, I decided to use two boards I had previously created. The two microcontrollers used for this assignment were the ATtiny 412 and ATtiny 1614.
1.The first thing I did was take out the boards I created during the Electronics Production & Output Devices week.
2.Then I reviewed the code used by the other students for the bridge and added some additional comments to understand the code fully
#include <SoftwareSerial.h> // includes serial library
SoftwareSerial mySerial(0,1); //TX,RX
int v=0;
int nodeid=1; //Node Identification
int i=0;
void setup() {
mySerial.begin(115200); //initialize serial communications
pinMode(4, OUTPUT); // led
}
void loop() {
for (i=1;i<=3;i++){ // initialization; condition; increment
mySerial.println(i); // print value to Serial
delay(1000);
}
while (mySerial.available () == 0 ) {} //while serial is 0
v = mySerial.parseInt();
if(v == nodeid) //If the value of v equals the identification of the node
{
digitalWrite(4,HIGH);
delay(200);
digitalWrite(4,LOW);
delay(200);
}
else
{
digitalWrite(4,LOW);
}
}
3.Then I reviewed the code used for the node and made changes to the digital pins as I was using the ATtiny 1614.
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>// includes serial library
SoftwareSerial mySerial(5,4); //TX, RX
int v=0;
int nodeid=5;//Node Identification
void setup() {
mySerial.begin(115200); //initialize serial communications
pinMode(0, OUTPUT); // led
}
void loop() {
while (mySerial.available () == 0 ) {} //while serial is 0
v = mySerial.parseInt();
mySerial.println(v);
if(v == nodeid) //If the value of v equals the identification of the node
{
digitalWrite(0,HIGH);
delay(200);
digitalWrite(0,LOW);
delay(200);
}
else
{
digitalWrite(0,LOW);
}
}
4.Then I verified each code to ensure that they had no errors and uploaded them to each micro-controller. I also ensured that I changes the board manager as both micro controllers were different.
