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

[Justin Sabe]

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/SoftwareSerial

You can use it and the regular serial command. I've done this for
times I needed to go from USB serial to TTL.


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Tim Slagle<tim at slagle.org> wrote:
>
> 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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