I do have lots of free time after work, however, you never answered my question Eddie… are those Fids you put on your match box?
P.S. Glad you liked the graphic 
Yeah, but the one in the plane area is wrong and shoud have had a cutout around it. I’ll fix it before I find a place to put the gerbers.
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That’s amazing. 
8) 
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EddieB, you going to make those boards available? I got an email from someone interested…
they are essentially a wifi board correct? if so, i think i would be interested in one of them too
Honest to god I’ve been bouncing between home projects and the ABB+BAP I bought that I’ve not done much more than power it up.
I did run into a “what is more useful” situation with it though. Right now RS232 is connected as a DCE pinout with a DB9-Female, just like the ABB and SSC-32. This works fine if you are connecting the serial port to a PC. In application though the MatchPort becomes the host and you are emulating the PC port end via a wireless connection. So it seems to me that a DTE pinout DB9-Male connection would make more sense. The trade off is if you want to configure it using the serial port from the PC you would need a null-modem connection. Everything else you would connect it to would be a normal straight cable (or use the TTL header and bypass the DB9 entirely.)
Let me swap the DB9 type and fix the silkscreen errors and I’ll e-mail you the schematic and gerbers tomorrow after lunch EST and you can do what you would like with them.
EB
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Jim did you get those files ok? Is it explained well enough or do you need more information from me? Btw, all the parts on the BOM are RoHS compatible so anybody should be able to buy/build and use the thing… even in the EU 
That is extraordinary, Eddie! My hat goes off to you!
Beautiful!
theChipmunk
Hello EddieB, honestly the whole thing dropped off my radar. I will ask Beth to set the files on the server and we will link them here. I have too many iron on the fire to take on the board right now. 
Heh, no problem. I figured it was something like that but was not going to pester you about it either. I am actually looking at using one of mine for real here in a couple of weeks so that’ll be fun. The coding stuff has backed off in the last week or two here at work so I am actually looking forward to doing some more work on my projects at home. 8)
Hey EddieB,
Any chance of getting a look at the files for this board?
I have a wiport that I just made a header board for, but am wondering what you came up with here?
Would you be able to email them to me? Only if you don’t mind.
Jim said he was going to ask Beth to put them on a server and link them so they will be available shortly I’d think.
I should point out that this board is for the Lantronix MatchPort not WiPort. Very different animal as the WiPort has a lot more stuff inside. The MatchPort is a simplified version that seems optimized for wireless use with their com port redirector.
I actually have some artwork started for the WiPort modules but it seems like everyone is so focused on cost that I didn’t bother to finish it. I really think that unless you need the (up to two) 930kbps serial channel(s) or have requested the CPK to develop your own applications for the WiPort that the MatchPort is the way to go. It is about half the price and has one 230kbps serial channel. I can make a WiPort breakout board if there is some real interest but it would be like a month before I get boards laid out, back from batchpcb, and built to test so it would not be a “quick” thing.
Thanks Eddie.
Looks like I’ll be sticking with what I have, It does the trick, so it’s all good.
It’s a pitty I got my WiPort before the MatchPort was released, or I would have gone for that, but you get that. It’ll be MatchPort for me next time (if there is a next time soon). Thanks again.
Sorry, I actually uploaded the files a while ago, but I completely forgot to provide a link! 
Hey Steve I pulled up the WiPort board design/artwork I had started a couple months ago and it was about 70% done so I banged out the rest of it at lunch and after work a couple nights last week and ordered a couple sample pcbs from batch pcb. I should have most of the parts kicking around in sample/junk boxes so I’ll build one up and if it works I’ll send you the artwork if you are interested in building one or two for yourself. It is a little more complicated than the MatchBoard is but… yeah well I didn’t want to re-do the whole design so you can pick or choose what you want to install or not. I’ll let you know when my board comes in (be like 2-3 weeks usually.)
Later
EB
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That’d be great Eddie!
I’d love to see what you’ve done with it.
Well this is what BatchPCB thinks it’s going to look like anyway…
http://users.adelphia.net/~eballou/WiBoard/wiboard0706c.jpg
There are a few discrete SMT parts on the bottom, couple decoupling caps and some TVS to protect the 3V-TTL lines against ESD. The latter being optional to install. The RJ-45 is an actual integrated magnetics part. Serial ports are done the same way as the MatchBoard, jumpers in for RS-232 otherwise use the jumper header as your connection. If I get around to writing the software the GPIO is setup so it can run a character based LCD module. Not exactly a biped feature but for a rover it could be handy. I used the same kind of power connector as the old WiBotics boards… might have been a mistake but there is also J12 a 0.1" pitch header for power as well so not stuck entirely with it. Meh. Don’t remember why I felt the need to put a fuse on it… a wild guess is the $115 wiport module seemed expensive to destroy from a rev. power hookup vs. the cost of a fuse. Whatever. We shalll see how it all works out.
Looks very proffessional Eddie. I cant wait to see what the real one looks like and how it works. Im sure you’ll be willing to share with us…