[Tinyos-help] can I use pin 8 (I2C Data) on Tmote as Digital I/O pin?

Michael Schippling schip at santafe.edu
Wed Dec 12 13:34:50 PST 2007


It's underneath the USB connector on the 'back' side of the board.
See the tmote manual for location...
However I couldn't find anything that says which pin is which, so:
The pin nearest the + battery connection is: #2 SVSout PORT57

MS

y-jie at northwestern.edu wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Could you tell me where the SVS "connector" is in Tmote?
> 
> Best,
> Yicheng
> ==============Original message text===============
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:21:37 am +0000 Michael Schippling wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately the two I2C pins are shared with the radio
> so it's best (IMHO) to avoid using them...if you need more
> I/O the SVS "connector" has one more usable pin and you
> could solder into where the onboard sensors go too.
> 
> MS
> 
> yicheng wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I want to use pin 8, which is I2C data pin on Tmote sky as a digital I/O 
>> pin, is it possible? Here is my code example:
>>
>>  
>>
>> Configuration file:
>>
>> Myapp.digitOut -> MSP430GeneralIOC.Port31;
>>
>>  
>>
>> Implementation file:
>>
>> uses interface MSP430GeneralIO as digitOut;
>>
>>  
>>
>> init function:
>>
>>       call digitOut.setLow();
>>
>>       call digitOut.makeOutput();
>>
>>       call digitOut.selectIOFunc();
>>
>>  
>>
>> What does “I2C data?pin mean?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Yicheng
>>
>>
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Programmer: MIB510
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