Arduino Nano Gateway for Vera - PCB link

[rosskinard]

@clippermiami Still waiting...gotta love ePacket Delivery from China. Never can tell when you'll get something.

[BulldogLowell]

@rosskinard said:

@clippermiami Still waiting...gotta love ePacket Delivery from China. Never can tell when you'll get something.

I'm watching/waiting too ;)

We should do a custom case for it using 3D printing.

[clippermiami]

@BulldogLowell That would be good. I'll buy one, you volunteering? My 3D printer is in the shop for service, it ran out of 3D :-)

[BulldogLowell]

@clippermiami said:

@BulldogLowell That would be good. I'll buy one, you volunteering? My 3D printer is in the shop for service, it ran out of 3D :-)

I don't have any 3D either, but I have a good hookup from the last project!

I will just need to get a PCB. When you have it working, I'll buy one (or two) and then I'll do the housing.

[clippermiami]

@BulldogLowell I'm looking forward to it as well and plan to buy a board when it is available. Right now I'm using Ross's excellent serial gateway but I really want to get it on my LAN instead.

[clippermiami]

@rosskinard Yes, it arrives when it gets there :-)

[Omemanti]

Looks really great!,
Are there any Dutch people who would like to order some?

[daulagari]

@mark-van-winden : Yes, interested and living in Holland.

Price for three boards is reasonable and shipping, if you are using first-class mail, should also be not too expensive.

[daulagari]

Placed an order an no additional shipping costs!

@mark-van-winden: Let me contact you, I like to two of them but if you still want one...

[hugob]

Also living in Holland. Looks like all three are gone, but if one is left over, I am interested

[daulagari]

$14.65 is €10.92 and you can pay with PayPal. No custom charges because it is below €22.

Seems like (not sure!) panelization would be done tomorrow.

[daulagari]

$14.95 is about €11, no shipping or custom costs, so also if you just need one board...

Got just an email saying:

Your Nano Gateway V2 copy boards are on the July 31st 2 layer prototype panel.
Once we fill up the panel with other orders it will be sent off to the fabricator.

[tbully]

I'm in for one or two if there's an opportunity.

[samppa]

I would also take a few for Ethernet Gateway. (The USB is so unreliable an annoying during reboots when the serial port forgets the rate on vera3..)

[RJ_Make]

What's going on with these?

[TroyF]

So I ordered a batch of these from OSHPark and they arrived a couple weeks ago. I've put one together but I'm running into a bit of a problem. Let me start by saying it's almost certainly me. I'm sure the boards and the design are fine. I'm pretty confident the Nano and the radio are fine too because they were working fine on a breadboard.

So when I plug everything together on the PCB the TX and RX and Power lights on the Nano are on solid and stay that way. The middle LED on the PCB gives a brief flash and that's it, nothing else is happening. If I take the Nano out from the board it seems to boot up normally.

So I've looked at my solder job and while not great I don't see any shorts, but I don't quite understand why the TX and RX lights stay solid when connected. If I connect the Nano to my laptop when plugged into the board it doesn't recognize a COM port.

Now I should admit that I did not put to capacitor for the radio onto the board, I just shorted the holes. I wanted to try it first without the cap. because I hadn't needed it on the breadboard. My brain tells me this shouldn't be causing a problem, but maybe it is?

Any suggestions that anyone would have for me to check would be awesome.

Thanks!

[TroyF]

Ok so.... things not to do:

1. Don't short the holes for the capacitor.

When I thought about this some more I realize it didn't make any sense to do that. I clipped the short and presto the Nano booted properly, no solid TX RX. So I cleaned the holes and put the capacitor in just for kicks and I think everything is working now.

A big thanks to Ross for putting the PCB together it's awesome!