Has anyone succesfully, with the Matchboard Evaluation Kit, made your robot wireless? I’m having some problems trying to get this working…any tips or hints anyone?
Um, not sure what you are referring to by “matchboard evaluation kit” but “matchboard” was a pcb I designed and made public for the lantronix matchport module some months ago and my scout works fine using it.
More information on what the problems you are having are will be needed if you expect to get any useful help/information.
I have redirector drivers installed on both my desktop and my laptop. The desktop is hardwired (cat5) to my dlink firewall/router/wap and had no issues using the latest and greatest driver. The laptop could not find the matchport initially but when I loaded an earlier version of the driver it finds it no problem now. I found something on a forum that said newer driver uses some additional port, not necessarily required, and that the earlier driver did not. the alternative method would have been to fix my firewall settings but I cheesed out and just used the old driver since I had it anyway.
Btw, here is a pic of it attached to an ssc-32 and the carrier on the back of the scout (whos face was clamped to the table at the time so his legs could dangle). The antenna mount is made from a chunk of G10 I had laying around. It is captured around and held by the DB9 hardware on the SSC-32.
http://users.adelphia.net/~eballou/MatchBoard/2337.JPG
The Matchboard Evaluation board that I’m referring to is available through gridconnect. It’s a pretty big board, I bought it believing that it would be possible to use it to enable my bot to go wireless…though I haven’t had any luck yet (I haven’t work on it for a while)…
Heh, it is a MatchPORT evaluation board. MatchBOARD is the PCB project I made to use the MatchPORT module with a footprint that stacks with the SSC-32 and ABB products by Lynxmotion. It doesn’t matter really as functionally they should be pretty similar in concept.
Can you power the MatchPort Module and talk to it using the serial port and a terminal program like hyperterminal so you can set up its configuration?
thx for the advice, ill look into that…
Sorry to go off topic but what did you use to make that serial cable Eddie?
The mesh stuff and the cable clamp things. (the black ones)
The mesh is just called braided sleeving and comes in lots of materials, I think that stuff is black nylon but it was in my scraps box at work so not entirely sure. the ends are just held together using self-adhesive heat shrink… alpha fit-300 series is my guess.