<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Itay Donenhirsch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:itay@bazoo.org">itay@bazoo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Erez D <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erez0001@gmail.com" target="_blank">erez0001@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Itay Donenhirsch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:itay@bazoo.org" target="_blank">itay@bazoo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">hi<div>if you already mentioned avr and would like to build things yourself then you can definitively build it yourself, see</div><div><a href="http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200606/article06061.shtml" target="_blank">tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200606/article06061.shtml</a> (you'll need an enc28j60 as well).</div>
<div><br></div><div>you can buy avrs through ebay/digikey/mouser or in israel either arihav or some stores in shdreot bnei zion, ta.</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>thanks. but it still seems too expensive and time consuming.<br>
</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>np, but it can be fun to build such a thing.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>been there, done that.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div><div><a href="http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200606/article06061.shtml" target="_blank"></a>a question though - why ethernet of all things? why not lay an rs-232 cable (avrs got internal uart for that) + max232 for the voltages and be done with it?</div>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br>1. i have ethernet. i do not have rs232. that's what i have.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div><div>Do not have rs232? What the world had come to...<br></div></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>i do not have rs232 cable. i have cat5e cable under the floor. i am not openning the floor to add another cable, nor am i using the cat5e cable for rs232. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>2. rs232 specs say it is for 15meters (which is too short anyway)<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div>You can easily build a repeater using a single MAX232.<br> </div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>3. only one computer can connect to an rs232. so i need to set up a server for the rs232 <-> ethernet, which i do not want to.<br>
<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div>You can connect rs232 to a computer which have ethernet, etc.. <br></div></div><br>Ofcourse that all what i've written is only if you got the time, and I agree ethernet is much sexier :)<br>
<br>You can always get an Arduino with an ethernet shield (ps, i hate arduinos but that's for another discussion), gives you all you want I guess.<br><br>Itay<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br>i have a slug ( nslu2 ) i use as a web server. maybe i will move it to the warehouse and use it as an ethernet <-> whatever bridge .. <br>
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