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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    Hi, I pulled out a second Node without the jumpers soldered to it for this set up, this enables flashing of the samples without leaving marks on them. Here is the USB connection to Windows and message it generates. Now after much fiddling, we have a working connection and the Windows app...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    Great news this morning! I remade a new USB cable and made sure it had no chip inside so its raw. After I connected this, Windows now detects the flash memory and so does TurboWriter. So we can now flash the boards once I get a file from Juan. This clears the CPU as good and the SPI Memory...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    I did a bunch of electrical checks and cleaned up the programming set up. The Flash Writing software isn't going to work with bare metal so we're going to use either Das U-Boot or RedBoot. Just waiting for Juan to get back to me with a boot file and a copy of the firmware. All of the hardware...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    I received a bunch of info last night to action. Juan is going to create the Bootable SPI NAND file I need by tonight. In this screen shot, we can see the CPU is seeing the SPI Flash but it doesn't have a file and ID # because we haven't made one yet. So this isn't a hardware hold up and it...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    So far all power supplies on the boards are good. That clears 50% of the systems. I am able to establish a UART connection to read the RX/TX events from the CPU. This means the CPU is working. It is also going into USB Recovery Mode which enables the flash to be written with a USB...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    The Loco-Nodes 0001 and 0003 have the Li-PO support, Loco-Nodes 0002 and 0004 do not, so they need constant track power like a decoder. As for vendor lock in, our system is good for iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux. Where I can see the issues in the near future is do they use C# as we are or...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    The first 8 boards I am testing with, I found a cool way to keep the pins in place is put a large white eraser under the board. The last 7 boards of this batch, I will use clips for the battery connection to preserve the pads so there will be no soldered connections on them (we can ship that...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    Hi, Just a quick update, I got my carry on Friday in Nassau. I am able to communicate with the boards CPU through a USB-UART interface. Also the CPU is going into RECOVERY (USB) programming mode when 5V is applied to the 5V USB programming pin. So from a hardware standpoint, it appears the...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    Sorry, thought the check out was 9:30, turned out to be 9:00. The PAX (high value clients) thought it reassuring to them of the value of private aircraft when I showed up in jeans and borrowed casual shirt from my copilot this morning when I told them what happened. Luckily the lawyer who...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    Hi, The latest update arrived Tuesday. Based on inspection, they surpass my expectations. I had to leave for another trip early yesterday morning - carry on which only had to go 20 feet from the aircraft door to the baggage compartment (Gatecheck) at CYYZ lost my bag. It has a Node and...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    The new V1.4 update shipped last Thursday night, should be here later this week or early next From what I can tell, unlike the previous versions, there are no missing components, everything seems to be properly placed and quality of fabrication/assembly is where it needs to be This time I...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    Hi, There will be more coming after next week, the V1.4 update shipped today from our supplier. This updates the assembly to latest values for the power supply. It clears out a short on FX_LED and updates it. It also moves over to the new motor driver. The latter enables stepper motor and...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    I got an update tonight and LN0001S left fabrication, its now in assembly http://youtu.be/8eOAkKX1Et0
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    I added the 5V voltage regulator, the Li-PO is now powering the entire loco Here is dead track, direct WiFi control http://youtu.be/H_tEZI3Dy6E
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    I got the above voltage regulator so we can remove the two USB cables from the demo locomotive - they are taking 5V from the notebook to provide power to the board and HBridge Below is an update on the basic Android application, we have to hurry up and finish it but with the flying season in...
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    Updated the web-site posting with the latest data, new production due to ship March 20, 2015 http://www.layout-ioe.com/collections/frontpage/products/loco-node-sound
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    http://youtu.be/FMUWCUjLx7Q
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    http://youtu.be/8ys-l0z3Ngs
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    http://youtu.be/AcGdYlPt41I
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    First WiFi Loco-Nodes, ready for fabrication/assembly

    We filmed the next four videos last night. I set up an HBRIDGE using the 7.4V Li-PO as a power source for the motor. There are two USB cables being used. One is powering the development board (5V) and giving us data from the Node to ensure communication is being processed correctly. There is...




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