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

[Tim Slagle]

The Arduino Mega board has four hardware UARTs:
  http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardMega
and costs $65:
  http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9152
They made it compatible with the original Arduino shields but some of the pins are changed around.
--Tim


--- On Mon, 6/22/09, M@ <mattbillings at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: M@ <mattbillings at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [dorkbotdc-blabber] Ardunio / RFID serial + what else?
> To: dorkbotdc-blabber at dorkbot.org
> Date: Monday, June 22, 2009, 8:11 PM
> Can you run the hardware and the
> software serials at different speeds.
> I looked around for some code examples, but I didn't find
> any?
> 
> M@
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Thomas Edwards<tedwards at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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?
> >
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