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Re: Adafruit CC3000 Cad File Search
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Originally Posted by SeanFitz View Post
Hi guys,

I'm looking for a CAD file for the adafruit cc3000 wifi shield as part of an off-season project for our team. Does anyone know where I can find them, or if anyone already has them? I'm using PTC Creo, so .step and .json files would be preferable, but really anything is fine.

Thanks
I attempted using those TI-CC3000 based Arduino-shields and my experience was terrible. The firmware (as recently as Dec 2014) was still very buggy, and the free Arduino software library was (IMO) way too convoluted/complex for simple tasks.

I have switched to using the Edison modules on the Arduino-compatible carrier. It's not a bug-free set-up either, but after figuring it out, I am MUCH happier than I was when I was attempting to get the CC3000 shield to work, and be stable for long-term use.

The Edison's two big hangups for small robot work are slow interrupt processing (when compared to an Atmel-based Arduino) for sensors like fast-rotating encoders (cure this by using one of the tiny Arduino's as a coprocessor that handles intterupts?), and coarse PWM pulse width granularity in it's PWM outputs (cure this by attaching a PWM shield instead of using the built-in circuits?).

If you run into trouble with either the CC3000 shield or the Edison, let me know, maybe I can help.

Blake
PS: Sorry - I don't have any CAD files for the various devices.
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