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Post by Jeff Ledger on May 17, 2007 22:58:10 GMT -5
I've been eyeing this lately.. Appears that for around $50 an ethernet interface can be added to anything that has a serial interface (or TTL level IO) Want internet on your toaster, toilet, m100, Color computer? This seems to be an easy solution... I understand that those big 'ol lantronix interfaces can be had cheap enough, this is neat... 3.3v, 5v tolerant, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, ARP, ICMP, SNMP, TFTP, Telnet, DHCP, BOOTP, HTTP, and AutoIP I'm going to order one of these, perhaps review.. www.lantronix.com/pdf/XPort_DS.pdf
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Post by Golan Klinger on May 17, 2007 23:41:49 GMT -5
Heh, funny you should mention the XPort. I've got one here and my intention is to put it into my next DTV mod. It's just a little UDS-10/100. If you have any questions, fire away.
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Post by Jeff Ledger on May 17, 2007 23:58:31 GMT -5
I ordered the two dollar rj45 break out board from spark fun electronics so I can fool with the thing in several configurations.
Does the webserver allow get/post data from the serial connection? In otherwords, could we actually create a web based bbs on an actual 64 using this? Without the load requirements of a tcp stack running on the machine it's connected to, there should be plenty of room left for some sort of browser code, heck this might even resurrect CML.. <smirk>
I'm going to drop it next to my propeller first and see what the thing can do on the breadboard, then haul my 64 out.
Jeff
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Post by gmoon on May 18, 2007 6:35:44 GMT -5
Man, these look cool! Love to see one interfaced with the DTV, Golan... Does the webserver allow get/post data from the serial connection? In otherwords, could we actually create a web based bbs on an actual 64 using this? Without the load requirements of a tcp stack running on the machine it's connected to, there should be plenty of room left for some sort of browser code, heck this might even resurrect CML.. <smirk> I would guess the onboard HTTP webserver handles get/post (if it's sophisticated enough), but maybe there are hooks... [For a more hacked solution, Guido's has a ENC28J60 & AVR ethernet server project here. The webserver is on the AVR (not the ethernet device), so it could be altered. Kits here. Possibly cheaper (but probably not easier) way to the net.]
EDIT: If an 'onboard' server is good enough, the Xport has 384 KB of mem for web pages. The AVR can't touch that (unless serial flash, etc. is added...)
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Post by Jeff Ledger on May 28, 2007 0:20:37 GMT -5
Got it and have started playing with it...
Power hungry little sucker.. Drawing around 200ma current, it runs very warm. (Of course I've just mounted it on my breadboard, when it should be heatsinked.) Doesn't look like I'll be using it in a mobile device, but it's proving interesting and I'll have it connected to a 64 soon.
Jeff
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Post by forrest on Jun 16, 2007 9:45:46 GMT -5
Any success using the Lantronix Xport with the DTV? Do you have a web browser running on the DTV? www.sics.se/contiki/
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