Greetings, Perhaps I am too late with this coment, but:
Be careful with the pin spacing -- the original 'shields' had a very weird problem between (their) pins 7 & 8, such that their shields absolutely do not 'land' on a 100 mil grid. This is a pain if you want to homebrew your own shields, or if you want to plug an 'off-the- shelf' shield into your homebrew board or breadboard. There are some nice workarounds, like on the Seeeduino, where they provide two rows pins, so you can choose the weird shield pin-out or a standard 100-mil grid pin-out. I'll go back and review what your goals are for this project before I say anything further. William On Aug 25, 2:51 pm, Sebastien Lelong <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm looking for some feedback from Arduino's users. As you may know, a new > project named Jaluino is aimed to clone the idea of Arduino shields: provide > a common base, and just plug a daughter board on it. > > As the project has started, Vasi (Funlw65) also tried to build such a board. > His board, renamed FreeJalduino, provides the same shape for shield > connectors, so you can plug an original Arduino shield on it. Looks > promising. > > My doubts is how can a PIC provide the same functionalities as an ATMega, > and as consequence, how can a PIC drive an Arduino shield ? For instance, > ATMega has many PWM channels (like 6) whereas most PICs have 2 channels (if > not only one). 18F2550 & 18F4550 have two channels. These differences made > me think this wasn't possible, but I may be wrong, and would like your > opinion on this. > > Should Jaluino be Arduino-shield compatible ? Does the PWM example is an > exception that could be considered as a "simple" limitation ? Or should we > go our own way ? > > Thanks > Seb > -- > Sébastien Lelonghttp://www.sirloon.nethttp://sirbot.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
