Thanks On Friday, December 6, 2013 3:57:32 AM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > The article looked more than capable in describing how everything should > be setup. The article you pasted a link to even went so far as mentioning > that you need to level shift the serial communications between the two > devices, and provided an easy to read diagram of how he/she did so. > > As far as being "newb to electronics", I can not help you with that, and > you need to spend some time learning the various aspects you need for this > project. Aside from that I really can not offer much other advice. > > Anyhow a logic analyzer would be your cheapest bet for checking the comms, > but you could even get away without one *if* you can eventually get it > working. > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:24 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I'm a total electronic newbie that is gathering experience while >> tinkering. If the UART is burned on this node, then so but it, far from >> the end of the world. I would still like to know how to go about getting >> my goal accomplished. Also, I do not have an oscilloscope or logic >> Analyzer, but if this is the suggested hardware to get this done, then I'll >> get my hands on one (one way or another). William, please provide me with >> you suggestions on the recommended methods for getting these two to >> communicate. Keep in mind that I do have a logic level convert from >> sparkfun in my possession. Thanks for any help you can provide, it is >> definitely greatly appreciated. >> >> On Thursday, December 5, 2013 4:09:43 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: >>> >>> Plugged the power to *what* 3v3 power of the BBB ? I hope you do not >>> mean you hooked the UART of the Arduino to the BBB UART without a logic >>> level converter between the two. I this is the case then there is a chance >>> you've burned out the UART on the BBB that you've hooked to. The Arduino >>> uses 5v serial where the BBB uses 3v3 serial. >>> >>> Are you using an oscilloscope or a logic Analyzer to check that there is >>> actually UART communications happening ? >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:36 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Also, just retried the example with pins 11 & 13, with the device >>>> powered by the 3.3v of the BBB...still no dice. >>>> >>>> /sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/44e10800.pinmux/pingroups: >>>> >>>> group: pinctrl_uart5_pins >>>> pin 28 (44e10870) >>>> pin 29 (44e10874) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >
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