USB DROID & LCD / KEYPAD SHIELD

[horst]

Hi,

I puschased both of the above (USB Droid) and LCD/Keypad Shield expecting them to work together.
Can anyone advise / help to get the LCD Shield to work on the USB Droid?

thanks
Horst

[davewal]

Horst,
there's a link on the usbdroid page, basically there are two options. Cut a link on the USBDroid, or cut a link on the LCD shield and add a wire to a different IO (D9 is used by both the USB and the LCD)

http://www.freetronics.com/pages/combin ... B3DPVvLYZ4

Dave

[dudleydo]

I just got the USBDroid for Father's Day, started wondering about this same question too.

One suggestion for the fix was to cut the track leading to D9 on the USBDroid, which would leave you without a working UINT.

What they forget to mention, is that from the schematic - we can put a solder bridge or link to the other pad, making the UINT D3 instead.

Is this correct Freetronics Team ? If so - what effect (especially any adverse effects) would moving the UINT to D3 have ?

If this is correct - maybe update the information on http://www.freetronics.com/pages/combin ... e-usbdroid

Regards,

Richard B

[angusgr]

Yes, you can use the solder jumper on the USBDroid to change the UINT pin assignment to D3 (by cutting and then soldering).

The USB Host library will need editing to reflect the new pins. Find the file UsbCore.h and look for a line like this:

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typedef MAX3421e<P10, P9> MAX3421E;

The line is here in the current version of the header: https://github.com/felis/USB_Host_Shiel ... Core.h#L43

The second number (P9) is the UINT pin number, so you can change it as follows:

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typedef MAX3421e<P10, P3> MAX3421E;

Angus