| About: |
A Narrow Casting solution with Master-sender and slaves-receivers used as Public Displays or Public Actuators. |
| Start date: |
06/09/2011 |
| Last changed: |
15/04/2013 |
INDEX
All YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS PROJECT
- Introduction
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- Features
- Integrated webpage for setting up TimeServer, Update interval, Timezone, DTS or set your own time.
- Integrated webpage for showing current messages and jobs.
- Integrated webpage for ethernet setup.
- Reset through webpage (restarts the slave completely).
- Delete all messages and jobs at once.
- 5 different ticker scrollspeeds to choose from.
- Add twitterfeed update interval.
- Add the CastDuino Master's IP for easy navigation.
- Reset and power failure proof (using EEPROM for storage).
- Set the alternating speed time and date are being displayed.
WHEN RUNNING THIS SKETCH FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, GO TO THE CONFIG PAGE IN YOUR BROWSER AND PRESS "SUBMIT AND RESTART ARDUINO" ONCE. FROM NOW, ON ALL YOUR SETUP PARAMETERS WILL BE SAVED IN EEPROM AND WILL SURVIVE POWER FAILURE OR HARD RESET!!!
HARDWARE + SOFTWARE REQUIRED
- Arduino Uno with Ethernet Shield
- or an Arduino Ethernet
- a CastDuino Shield or a second Arduino Uno (taking care of the output)
- an internet connection for NTP
- a computer with web browser
- 3 Dot Matrix Displays SURE3208
- (or an LCD 16x2 screen (compatible with Hitachi HD44780 driver))
- (or a VGA-screen (CRT, LCD, LED or OLED))
- (or an old TV with VIDEO-in (tulip))
CIRCUIT OR SCHEMATIC
image developed using Fritzing. For more circuit examples, see the Fritzing project page
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LINKS
If you would like to comment, you can do so on the arduino forum in this post: http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,71543.0.html
CHANGELOG
CastDuinoSlave2_0: Finally I found out what caused the problem with IDE 1.3 and up, From now on, you can use Arduino IDE 1.0.3 and up.
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