UART Serial on cRIO

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Originally Posted by IceStorm

Shoot...

I spent a bit more time looking at the board schematics somemore after i had already posted and it looks like they are actually using the I2C interface of the chip to talk to both the Triple Axis Accelerometer - ADXL345 and the Triple Axis Magnetometer - HMC5843 both of which are sold in breakout board form by sparkfun with I2C interfaces on the board. You might be able to just skip the board you referenced above and get the breakout boards for the individual components and just hook them up directly through I2C to the Crio.

Coming from a hobbyist not and EE and someone with a little but not a ton of hardware programming experience this is just a thought.

Actually, I've been working a lot with I2C as of recent, and I know for a fact that you can use the I2C for communicating with the Magnetometer as well as transferring data to another slave. However, it seems like too much of a work-around to solder a wire directly to the pins to make it work, etc.

And you're right, they are using the same micro as the Duemillanove. I have one and I'm an avid Arduino user. Actually, keep your eyes open in the coming season... My team (107) might just be using a bunch of them, if I get things my way.