redtop's Ferduino controller

I got my battery holders and my P-Channel MOSFET 60V 27A holders today from spark :)

just need the thru hole RTC chips
 
just want to make sure Fernando will stop using the ENC28J60 Ethernet Shield in his next release of his software?
 
rott said:
just want to make sure Fernando will stop using the ENC28J60 Ethernet Shield in his next release of his software?
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I think so, he used the newer W5100 Ethernet components on his Ferduino Mega so I assume he'll be phasing out the ENC28J60 shield altogether on future releases, but he'll have to confirm that :D
 
redtop I am sure I read that also just couldn't find it Didn't he and you both make the little back end piece to go on a stander Ethernet shield? anywho I did the same thing looked like crap so I just use double high pins that you would use for stacking shields anyway and just used them. seemed to work ok. If ANYONE has a spare back end piece for the Ethernet shield I would be in your debt if you could send it to me.
 
Here's my Ferduino/Redtop/Marspeed collaboration; used a DS3231 (Ebay cheapy) clock attached to the screen shield
 

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Puffer your looking good there.. now that you got it running what you going to mount it in I think I am going to use an out door rated water tight electric box.. The boards from marspped really make it easy to hook up every thing to
 
rott said:
Puffer your looking good there.. now that you got it running what you going to mount it in I think I am going to use an out door rated water tight electric box.. The boards from marspped really make it easy to hook up every thing to
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Sound idea, have you sourced something already ? Got a J*rduino running on the 7inch same kit... Nice job... just need to figure out the wifi eloquently.
 
Good to hear you guys like the board
Puffer I had my rtc hooked up like that at first and use your multi meter to find led polarity set it on diode touch the led till it lites up red is +
 
Root you still loking for a dox to put it all in well I hope my board made it easier to use fernandos sketch I am surprised more people aren't jumping in it has just about every feature you could want for your tank
 
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Good to hear you guys like the board
Puffer I had my rtc hooked up like that at first and use your multi meter to find led polarity set it on diode touch the led till it lites up red is +
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I went for it. messed one up guessing the orientation of the smd led yesterday. After a struggle found some red 1206 LEDS so we are good, just took a lot of patience to get the smd led off of a totally soldered board without stripping too much of the pads or melting the plastic connectors.


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orientation "LED" writing with the edge at top of board
 

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rott said:
redtop I am sure I read that also just couldn't find it Didn't he and you both make the little back end piece to go on a stander Ethernet shield? anywho I did the same thing looked like crap so I just use double high pins that you would use for stacking shields anyway and just used them. seemed to work ok. If ANYONE has a spare back end piece for the Ethernet shield I would be in your debt if you could send it to me.
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Fernando made his shield extension from scratch, I used a proto board and a dremmel to cut the needed section out, the stackable headers without the PCB extension should work just fine too
 
marspeed said:
Root you still loking for a dox to put it all in well I hope my board made it easier to use fernandos sketch I am surprised more people aren't jumping in it has just about every feature you could want for your tank
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that is very true, and it is an extremely stable code, I've had mine running for several months now and not a single glitch, I'm not using the Joyreef app right now but it works great too, I've had my wave pumps running on the Chauvet controller and it's using the only Ethernet cable I have ran to my tank, I'm seriously considering the wireless mod that someone posted about on the Ferduino forum :D

I've been playing around with 3 different arduino controllers and it's about drove me crazy, and now I have found yet another cool looking controller code (thanks a lot Marc) LOL
 
I have my RTC chips in hand now so I should be able to get it all up and going in the next few days I hope I want to try out joy reef

@redtop get a cheap small switch from any where online like BestBuy or amazon or china or flebay you can get 10/100/1000 4 or 6 port ones cheap these days plug your one cable in to it then you can plug in both controllers or up to how man ports you have open
 
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