Here is a “Hello world” sketch for JeeNodes, luxury edition:

It drives 4 LEDs, one connected to each the DIO + GND pins of each “port”. The LEDs on ports 1 and 4 blink at different rates, while LEDs 2 and 3 use the PWM output capabilities to continuously light up and then dim again (like Macs do in sleep mode). Only ports 2 and 3 support PWM.

Here’s a setup using four 4-pin headers on a JeeNode with a mini breadboard (port pins 1 and 6 are rarely used). Note how ports 1 & 2 are rotated 180° w.r.t. ports 3 & 4:

Each of the LEDs is connected to port pins 2 and 3 with a series resistor. The red LED is port 1, then counter clockwise ports 2 (green), 3 (green), and 4 (yellow). The wireless isn’t being used in this example.

This uses a new “Ports” library which is available as Ports.zip or via subversion. This code needs to be placed in the Arduino IDE’s “libraries/” folder. It includes this “blink_ports” example.

My next post will explain why I went through the trouble of creating this Ports library. For now it’s just a thin wrapper around the standard pinMode(), digitalRead(), digitalWrite(), analogRead(), and analogWrite() calls.

Update – sources now in subversion.