Comments on: Dorkbot DC: Arduino, Meet Fonera

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:10:43 +0000

An update for interested parties: I've made some significant progress on getting python running on the Fonera, which opens up a lot of possibilities for the platform. You can find details here.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:21:32 +0000

That’s extremely helpful! I didn’t realize (but probably should have) that the serial console is hooked directly into the shell. That makes a lot of sense, and will make my app much easier — I want to trigger actions on the Fonera, but figuring out how to monitor the serial port in a non-blocking way using only shell commands (since getting a proper scripting language onto the relatively meager Fonera is difficult) was looking to be tricky.

By: binnary

binnary — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:55:35 +0000

Tom: I have successfully get the TX/RX communication working from the arduino to the fonera. The problem was in the arduino’s code.
You can find more info in the last comment of icarus75 of this url, for the modifications you may do in the /etc/inittab of the openWRT: http://www.jokamajo.org/content/fonduino#comment-14
And doing so, you only have to send a Serial.println(“hello”); to the fonera while you are catching the /dev/ttyS0 (for example with a “cat /dev/ttyS0).
As simply as that. Hope this helps! ;)

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:26:18 +0000

binnary: nope, I haven’t done that yet, although my next project will require it. I’ll keep you posted — and please do post here if you figure it out first.

By: binnary

binnary — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:56:27 +0000

Have you tried to send something form the arduino to the fonera? I’m using OpenWRT and I can only get 1 way serial comunication, from the fonera to the arduino.
Has anyone achieve this?
Thanks in advance!
binnary

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:52:58 +0000

Actually, I haven’t. Hmm. At any rate it seems to work.

By: zoobab

zoobab — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:05:04 +0000

Have you used a MAx3232 for the serial communication between the Arduino (5V) and the Fonera (3.3V)?

By: Jordi - FON

Jordi - FON — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:27:21 +0000

I came here from your comment at Jokamajo site, awesome that Fonera is useful for your dev investigation too and thanks for supporting the FON community initiative on your audio file! ;) Again let us know if you need further help and check out the Fonera 2.0 with USB at fon.com , it may bring some cool ideas for you to do.
Cheers,
Jordi – FON

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:10:18 +0000

Interesting! Thanks for posting the link — I’ve wanted to mess around with Mobile Processing for a while, but it had slipped my mind. Your project makes it seem really doable.

By: five.b.oh

five.b.oh — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:32:49 +0000

That is really cool. Thanks for making these available. . . and so quickly.
Amazing what a bit of code on the right hardware can do for your budget.
I did a similar thing (albeit on a much smaller scale) using a motorola phone and mobile.processing – no wifi just gprs. check it out.
http://five.b.oh.googlepages.com/