[dorkbotdc-blabber] Ardunio / RFID serial + what else?

[Thomas Edwards]

Arduino has one "hardware" serial port on pins 0 and 1, but you can
use a "software serial port" on other pins:

http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/SoftwareSerial

It has many limitations though, especially speed (9600 bps).  So I
have been using "NewSoftSerial" which has fewer limitations:

http://arduiniana.org/libraries/newsoftserial/

On the other hand, if you really want two solidly working serial ports
with rates up to 230,400 bps, you could always drop the Arduino and go
with the Comfile CUBLOC:

http://cubloc.com/product/01_01cb220.php

-Thomas
 http://www.t11s.com

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:20 PM, M@<mattbillings at gmail.com> wrote:

> My question is if I am using the serial RFID reader from parallax, can
> I still use something like xport or xbee? Will the RFID use the only
> serial port and make the transmission to the webserver impossible?