I was under the assumption that the arduino 1.0 softwareserial is a rewritten NewSoftSerial authored by Mike Hart but was I so wrong! For a whole morning I was puzzled by it. Why didn't I get anything from my serial LCD keypad?! The not New SoftwareSerial must be very different under the hood from M…

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system February 3, 2013, 12:35am 3

SoftwareSerial (or NewSoftSerial) was not designed for use on a board with 4 hardware serial ports. Why do you need to use it on a Mega?

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