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New Product Ideas / Re: More sensor want

« on: September 16, 2015, 01:57:22 PM »

We do have a light sensor available under the sensor category, and a new BMP280 based pressure sensor will be up on the website soon.

We tried a color sensor, but it doesn't work well in our format- the setup needs to be tailored to the application, so it's better to build in a breakout like the Adafruit board. We've thought about some sort of remote board setup, but haven't gotten to it yet.

It's definitely easy to solder an IR LED to our proto board.

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General Discussion / Re: Problem with the TinyScreen

« on: September 15, 2015, 06:18:13 PM »

I don't remember hearing of any problems quite like this, glad it's working now but please keep us updated if you have any further problems.

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: TinyShield_RTC set date problem with RTC Library Tests

« on: September 15, 2015, 06:02:33 PM »

I uploaded the code example(using Codebender) and when I paste that string(without preceding spaces) I get:

The current time is 9/12/2015  13:56:45

Have you tried it without a RTC board plugged in? Any different? I haven't seen this problem before so I'm curious about what's going on.

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: nRF8001 samples code nRFgo studio xml profile?

« on: September 10, 2015, 04:56:20 PM »

XML examples are available in Nordic's library releases, UART version is at https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/ble-sdk-arduino/tree/master/libraries/BLE/examples/ble_uart_project_template

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: Is the TinyShield BLE Nordic FCC certified?

« on: September 10, 2015, 04:49:53 PM »

Missed this. Bluegiga is the way to go if you want FCC certified.

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General Discussion / Re: Problem with Smart Watch

« on: September 10, 2015, 04:27:53 PM »

Hi Nicolas,

Can you post exactly what errors are coming up? A screenshot or copy and pasted error is really helpful if possible.

Thanks,
Ben

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: Display jpg and png on Tiny Screen

« on: September 08, 2015, 03:29:20 PM »

JPG and other compressed formats are not possible, but we have a BMP display example at https://codebender.cc/sketch:86070

Displaying a BMP is still a bit slow- a lot more data has to be loaded from the SD card. blant0n's suggestion of using the tutorial with the converter to a raw format will result in faster display of a single frame.

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: Circular Tinyduino?

« on: September 08, 2015, 03:25:58 PM »

We moved away from the circular form factor to fit more components on the boards. Many of the boards can still have the corners trimmed off to fit about 23mm diameter if you need it.

We do have the TinyLily line if it has the components you need.

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: BLE BLUEGIGA scanner sample

« on: September 08, 2015, 03:12:22 PM »

Hi Thomas,

BGLib is a general purpose library, and the examples expect a hardware sleep control pin. Our board omitted that to save the I/O pin. This is changed on our example at https://www.tiny-circuits.com/learn/tinyshield-ble2 but not explained properly. I think we lost some text during website changes, which we'll have to fix- sorry about that.

In the scanner code, stick with (3,4) for the serial pins, comment out lines 89 and 90(which reference the onBeforeTXCommand/onTXCommandComplete we don't want), and remove any lines with reference to 'BLE_WAKEUP_PIN'- then the code should be functional.

Ben

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General Discussion / Re: Tiny smart watch problem

« on: September 08, 2015, 02:42:24 PM »

Hi, sorry you didn't get an answer- I gave it a try with an Android 4.3 phone and it displayed a text message I received after connecting.

Keep in mind the app only forwards newly received(while the watch is connected) texts and calls. Make sure it shows the correct time and date, which sometimes requires a quick disconnect/reconnect.

Have you checked the serial monitor output when the USB adapter is in the stack? It should at least show if the watch is connected properly or not. It should look something like this, with one text received at the end in my case:

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Evt Device Started: Standby
Advertising started
Evt Connected
Evt Pipe Status
Evt Disconnected/Advertising timed out
Advertising started
Evt Connected
Evt Pipe Status
Pipe Number: 10
20 bytes: D2015 09 08 14 23 39
Pipe Number: 10
8 bytes: 1Alex:
Pipe Number: 10
20 bytes: 2I'm sure! But it's


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General Discussion / Re: What all comes with the Dual Motor TinyShield?

« on: September 08, 2015, 02:15:31 PM »

The motor driver is available with 0.1" header for now and requires soldering. The motors are small quadcopter motors with connectors crimped on- we haven't found any motors that already have a JST SH connector, but we're working on it.

If you don't have a specific need, there are a lot of micro gearmotors available on ebay that are good to use with the motor driver board.

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: Tinyshield BLE - control LED doesn't blink

« on: June 18, 2015, 07:17:45 PM »

Hi Thea,

Missed your last post- cool project. I haven't worked with the Bluegiga BLE module in while, so I'll run some tests soon and make sure the libraries and tutorials are still working properly.

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: audio and motor board conflict and wrong pins on motor4

« on: June 18, 2015, 07:13:41 PM »

Unfortunately when the compatibility chart was made, only pin compatibility was considered- the wave library and PWM on pin 9 both use the Timer1 counter and can't be used together. Pin 8 doesn't actually have PWM, the analogWrite function should just be setting the pin high or low depending on if the value passed to it is above or below half the maximum.

If only need on/off control, you can just use digitalWrite on both control pins as a quick workaround. If you do need PWM, we'll definitely get our error sorted out in some way.

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: Tinyduino motion logger

« on: June 18, 2015, 06:54:11 PM »

Unfortunately if you want an accurate timestamp you'll need to add the RTC board or a bigger battery- the processor needs to keep in at least idle mode to keep time, which uses something like 3mA, quite a bit over 2 weeks.

You might be able to get away with writing to the internal flash if you only need 8 bit values every few minutes, or only log actual movment, or something like that.

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TinyDuino Processors & TinyShields / Re: A minimal example for TINYSCREEN 96x64 OLED

« on: June 18, 2015, 06:39:06 PM »

Definitely sounds like you might have a bad board- shoot an email to info@tiny-circuits.com if you haven't already, we'll get you a replacement if one is needed.