Networking week

assignment

   individual assignment:

•       design, build, and connect wired or wireless node(s)
        with network or bus addresses and local input &/or
        output device(s)
  

   group assignment:

•       send a message between two projects

group assignment

Bridge

So for this week I began by designing a bridge board through KiCad. I based the schematic on a board I found on Adrians website.
I used KiCad to create it, then I put it through Inkscape and used stroke to path on the lines, inverted the colours and saved it as an svg (SVG accessable at bottom of page)


After going though the Inkscape process I went on modsproject.org and went through the same process as I did for the Electronic Production week

Here is the schematic and the PCB design!

Node

I also made a Node board, largely basing it on the board made by Adrian in his Networking week!.
I followed his documentation regarding the parts and created my own version through KiCad.

Connecting it

Next step was to connect the boards together with wires:

Node<-Node<-Bridge<-FTDI cable<-Computer



So  to prepare my computer I began by downloading the driver needed for the FTDI cable

driver download link

The next step will be to get it to work through code :)
I will continue to largely base it off Adrian´s work
Link to Adrians page