Re: A86: Theory question
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Re: A86: Theory question
i was working on a pic based radio network for a while (still am, sort
of...)
one thing i noticed is that when i had the calc hooked up to the pic, the
pic would run without its own power supply. it sucked power off the link
port!
-josh
On Wed, 12 May 1999 18:18:08 +0100 Nuno Sao Joao
<nmasj@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt> writes:
>
> This wouldn't be too dificult to make.
> We could have a PIC based circuit. It could do buffering
> of small packets (16-24 bytes) and talk to the calcs in
> a round robin fashion. A calc, to send a packet to another
> calc, would have to send the number of the receiving calc
> first, then the packet. The PIC would receive it and hand
> it over to the receiving calc. Well, there are plenty of
> ways this could go from here...
> But if were PIC based, with very much probability it could
> be done with ONLY the PIC (which is a single 18 pin chip),
> which would make it very small and very little power
> consuming (3V is enough).
> Just some ideas...
>
> NSJ
>
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