On Jun 7, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Abhishek Anand wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to connect my micaz motes to the computer's usb port without  
> using the programming board(MIB510) because I have many motes but  
> only 1 programming board(cant afford more! ). With ony one  
> programming board, I'm unable to debug the program running in all  
> the motes simultaneously
>
> USB male to female connector-cables are available in abundance. I  
> figured out that a USB connector has 4 pins.
> And the prototyping area of my mda100cb sensor board has 3 pins  
> labelled
>
> UART1_RX
> UART1_TX
> UART1_CX
>
> So should I solder these 3 pins and ground to the 4 pins of USB  
> female side of the cable? (in which order?)
> Can I connect many motes in this way to multiple USB ports of the  
> same computer?
> Will the debuggging messages sent using printf from all motes be  
> displayed?
>

The mote's output is UART. The MIB 510 has a chip that reads in serial  
one side and outputs USB the other. You can't just hook up the UART  
pins to your USB.

Phil
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