Can BlueSMiRF by parkfun be used in the Education board for Boe-Bot ??

zhang

I want to implement the communication of Boe-Bot Robot with Bluetooth module. I use the BlueSMiRF module by Parkfun at hand. But the hardware connection need RXD and TXD connection. It seems that the education board is not convinient for the connection. Even if I connect the two pins with SIN and SOUT pin of the BS2 and command with serin and serout 16 pin (the phisical pin), the BS2 editor can't found the stamp.

If I do something wrong in hardware connection or program wrong? And can the BlueSMiRF be used in education board?

Looking forward for any answer! Thank you for your patience.

allanlane5

Well, it sounds like there's two things you want to do.

The first is communicate with the BS2 over Bluetooth. This should work.

The second is actually PROGRAM the BS2 over Bluetooth. This is somewhat more difficult. I believe Parallax recomments the "Tooth-PIC" module, programmed as a BS2 programmer, for this task.

The issue is, the BS2 and its IDE have a very close tolerance with resetting the BS2 (using the DTR signal), getting a response back from the BS2 to the IDE, checking a loopback jumper, and checking 'echo', before the IDE will download a program to the BS2. And during programming, I believe there's a checksum the BS2 sends back to the IDE.

I'm not sure the timing is such that you can program over Bluetooth. I separate the two, because the technical difficulties of PROGRAMMING over Bluetooth are MUCH harder than merely using Bluetooth for communication. So if all you want to use it for IS communication, you don't need to go to all this trouble.

Chris Savage

This is a duplicate thread.· Please refer to the original at the following link.

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=620924

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