After months of plotting and scheming and prototyping and testing and fighting with EAGLE, the first production batch of the Freetronics Ethernet Shield with Power-over-Ethernet support has now landed. Ahh, it's a beautiful thing:
As explained on the product page it includes a few improvements to the reference design, such as:
- Slaving the Wiznet enable line to the SPI select line
- Improved power filtering for better noise suppression
- Improvements to reset circuit to reliably reset the Wiznet chip when the Arduino resets
- Power-over-Ethernet magjack with PoE connections brought out to a header
- MASSIVE prototyping area!
With our midspan injector you don't even need to hack any network cables for a cheap DIY approach. Just plug it in and away you go.
Have fun!
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Jump to comment formDale said:
Hi Jon & Co, I was interested in your comment… “and fighting with EAGLE”. I coincidentally tweet’d about open source ECAD and was dissapointed to find that EagleCAD is not…at least even from the ’freeware point of view usable for profit. What are your experiences/thoughts on this topic?
Cheers,
Dale
www.newToArduino.com
Jonathan Oxer said:
Hi Dale, I have way too much to say about that topic to cover it in a comment! I’m writing a blog post at the moment about my experiences with various CAD packages, particularly in the context of trying to do “Open” hardware design.