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I'm currently working on an arduino sketch (EEPROM programmer) that receives serial data from a computer, then outputs data\address info through the I/O pins. However, I need one more I/O pin for the address bus... Since I'm only receiving data through the serial port, I was hoping that I could use pin 1 (TX) for digital I/O, but the Arduino wouldn't listen to my digitalWrite commands.

Is there any way I can use pin 1 in my project while still receiving serial data?

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There was a modification of the HardwareSerial class posted recently that allowed read-only, write-only, or read-write access to the serial port pins.

Have you used all the analog pins, too. They can be used as digital pins.

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If you use Serial it configures the hardware UART to take over pins 0 and 1 - in this case they cannot be used with digitalWrite().  Use SoftwareSerial instead perhaps?

Alternatively look at the code in HardwareSerial.cpp and figure out what to override.  [ or look the posting mentioned above ]

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http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,125110.0.html

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I'm currently working on an arduino sketch (EEPROM programmer) that receives serial data from a computer, then outputs data\address info through the I/O pins. However, I need one more I/O pin for the address bus... Since I'm only receiving data through the serial port, I was hoping that I could use pin 1 (TX) for digital I/O, but the Arduino wouldn't listen to my digitalWrite commands.

Is there any way I can use pin 1 in my project while still receiving serial data?

The USART has priority over normal pin operations when it's enabled. You can disable the transmitter by clearing a bit in USCR0B.

Go read the datasheet for more details...

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http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,125110.0.html

Thank you! I'll be sure to try this.

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Or look in the begin() function: the line

Code:

 sbi(*_ucsrb, _txen);

seems to be the obvious candidate.  Though that's in terms of variables and #definery.