Tim's dashboard

I think I have narrowed down this issue to hot swapping the BlinkMs.

I just tried the same process with the Cylon example sketch, and with twoBlinkM's plugged in, programmed to addresses 16 and 20 (dec). It worked, until I power cycled and reloaded the arduino; then the BlinkM formerly at address 20 changed to 97.

Also, the fade speed of that BlinkM was changed to 0, keeping it from lighting at all. I have seen this before when the address changes.

HLP??!!

This is the most I can tell you:

I have one Arduino board connected to up to six (so far) BlinkM’s in parallel. The BlinkM’s are powered through the +5 connector, not the direct connection on the Arduino board (the cable to the chain of BlinkM’s goes to two different connectors on the Arduino.

I have the 0011 Alpha software downloaded, along with the tools and drivers.

I am programming the I2C addresses by plugging one BlinkM in, and running the BlinkMTester sketch. I get the address using ‘a’, set it using ‘A’, verify it using ‘a’, then verify the LEDs work by trying a few lamp combinations with the ‘c’ command.

I have programmed six BlinkM’s for the address range of 16 to 21 this way.

I then run my sketch (which I can send you seperately) which should sequence the LED’s. Once it worked, but when I power cycled, all the BlinkM’s had returned to address 16. sometimes they have returned to address 97.

Suggestions? – Tim, on September 11, 2008 12:29