that sort of tape is great,

BUT:

it has no long term mechanical strength,

its a plastic, and one part will slide wrt the other with time and heat.

used on things like CPU heat sinks its great,
    little mechanical stress to the parts, it lays flat most of its life,
 

related note:

on a ribbion cable, you have a lot of capacative coupling wire to wire,

thats why half the pins are joined, to ground, so alternate conductors are ground, and alternat conductors are signal.

I've seen -5 v spikes coming out of 1 m of ribbion cable with insufficient earths, when the input is only + 5 volts .

its the edges.

oh BTW: the above blew the receiver circuit.
   the reason was that the pin numbering on the cable / schematic was wrong, so instead of alternate conductors in the ribbion being ground, 40 wires on the left were earth, the 40 on the right were signal !!

try downloading another item,

like a free game ( solitaire ? ) from the app store.

Its just a thought

can I bounce the thought here.

the old question, controlling mains loads, such as heaters, with spare PV power.

Now I dont like playing with mains voltages, and I know the wife would be happier if I did not have a home brewed mains controler.

SO looking back a few years, I used to work in the theater, and we had remote controlled lamp dimmers, controlled over DMX, which is a differential low voltage system ,

We have DMX shields already in existence, and a 4 channel , 10 amp per channel DMX dimmer costs less than 100 Euro,

so thought was, use an Arduino with a DMX shield to control the dimmers,
   the arduino also receiving info from something like the EmonTx,
   
Any thoughts on would this be usefull to any one else , is it a good idea or mad ?

Ta

would really like to see a eprom / flash interface so that as the user above says,
   constants can be stored.

Even a one wire interface for constants would be great.
 
how do I store a MAC address,
   or calibration data that I've spent ages setting up....

I can, but others might not want to use VHDL / verilog to configure the Lattic device.

so could u post what u are looking at then please.

some one else might gain from the info

I would make a few comments.

software serial was made I understand to add extra serial ports to a device that had not sufficient.
  I certainly used it to provide a 5th port on the mega when the design called for one.


I have also used it to give me multiple outputs on a design I needed, wit h no inputs. the -1 was added about that time, may be a year or so ago me thinks, but could be out there.

I think software serial was around before the mega, so was not as such designed for it, or not for it.
   its there if needed.

Hi

this is not an answer, more sympathy.

I bumped into the same problem with software serial on the mega,
    in that I'd wired the serial port on software serial to pins that did not support interupts.

qQED : it did not work,
   I had to move the pins to one of those that does support interrupts on input
     and software serial worked,

to answer the question
   yes it dosn't

depends what your doing with the thing.

would be nice if a simple rtos was available,

as for the comment back a while about the good old 8008,
   the work on the apollo computer used a rtos / interupt / schedular system,
     its what saved the 11 mission when buzz left the  return to orbit  radar on as well as the landing radar.

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-mit-apollo-guidance.html

have fun

well done

testing this sort of thing is a real pain I know,
   

robtillaart

like the idea of a formula,
    but could be slow to change baud rate could it not.

not certain, and for interest,
   did you try two boards connected using the standard software serial code,
      did you try two boards using the standard hardware uart.

Peter_I

makes you wonder why so many people seem to make a hash of installing,
    and come to the forum, or ask friends.

and why an installer gets asked for so often.

but thats another question.

have a good new year.

life ah,

Hi

good comments,

I think the library installer you mention has been cracked by Eried in the windows system.

did not know that arduino was in the linux package managent system,
    interesting. I use linux on my servers, centos, I'll have to have a look for a development system for arduino.

have a good new year,

must be the time of year tuxduino,

I think windows is covered , Eried seems to do a great job on that,
   
you do seem 'focused' on msi files and windows in your comments,
     which as I say seem to be covered,

Hi

msi is windows is it not ?

I think Eried has windows well covered thanks,