Professional Development Board Connectors

Dan Taylor

Hi,
· I just recently got the Professional Development Board and was wondering what the RJ-11 and RS-32DCE connectors can be used for? Any examples or projects? I am kind of at a loss of what to do with them.

Can you plug a mouse or keyboard expansion·into them.
Thanks!

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Dan Taylor

Post Edited (Dan Taylor) : 1/31/2009 10:51:39 PM GMT

Franklin

Dan, if you look at the board you will see a row of sockets behind these connectors that will allow you to hook them up in any configuration you want. If you need to connect say a 1-wire device that has a rj-11 connector on it already that is where you would plug it and then you would run jumpers where needed.

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- Stephen

MSDTech

Actually, they can be very flexable off board connectors. I needed to hook up a remote temperature detector to help a student with a science fair project. I had a spare sht11 chip (not the module that Parallax sells) that uses a 4 wire interface. I wired it to a phone extension cable with an RJ11 connector. Seems with setting the jumpers on the RJ11 interface on the PDB, it was easily connected. I've also used the RS232C interface on more occasions than I can count. If you ever look at X10 devices to control modules plugged into you house wiring, these will be VERY USEFULL.

Dan Taylor

Can you give me an example of anything that can me incorporated through these connectors? Such as a mouse or joystick or keyboard.
Thanks both of you for replying!

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Dan Taylor

Franklin

They are just connectors. Anything you could incorporate on the breadboard can be used with these connectors providing they 'fit'

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- Stephen