CC3000 on the Maple board

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Posted at 2014-07-31 by ngmacha

I'm trying to connect the CC3000 (TI's original Booster Pack for the Launchpads, https://estore.ti.com/CC3000BOOST-CC3000-BoosterPack-P4258.aspx) to the original LeafLab's Maple board (the Espruino for Olimexino board runs fine). The instructions for connecting CC3000 to Espruino (http://www.espruino.com/CC3000) says it must be connected to pins B3-B8 only. Pin to pin matching of the STM32 chip gives me D42-D43-D4-D5-D9-D14 on the Maple board. However, unfortunately, the D43 pin in the Maple rev.5 board is tied to the Reset button, and cannot be used.
Anyone can advise if in the latest Espruino images the CC3000 could be connected to other pins, or it still hard coded to those mention in the tutorial? Is it possible to modify the pins used? Any help is very much appreciated. Many thanks in advance

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Posted at 2014-07-31 by @gfwilliams

Hi,

The pins are hard-coded at the moment, but I'm afraid you're unlikely to have any luck with the Maple. The chip on it has only half the flash of the Espruino Board so some things have been left out to make room - one of those is CC3000 support.

If you compiled your own image and removed stuff you didn't need (Graphics, FAT) then there might be space (and you could specify your own pins) but I can't guarantee that it would fit in even then.

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Posted at 2014-08-01 by ngmacha

Thank you, Gordon, for this information!..