hopefully this makes sense as well as it does in my head,
I'm planning on running an Arduino Mega 2560 with an LCD TFT screen to use to enter inputs for the program I'm running, that bit is pretty straight forward hopefully,
I also require 2 analogue inputs to be connected to that arduino (lets call this arduino 2) that the Screen can output as a feed once my desired procedure is running, my concern is, is there enough real estate left on the board whilst using a TFT screen and the required shield to connect these inputs,
I also need a way of transferring inputted values from the LCD screen and arduino 2, to another arduino (arduino 1 - already setup arduino mega)(not continuously, just once every time i restart the system) that runs a separate program, is it possible again with the space left after the screen has been installed,
I also, from the program running on arduino 1, need to send a calculated variable from arduino 1 to arduino 2 which helps with the output display during running,
I hope this makes sense and there's probably 1000 better ways of going about this, however with the current infrastructure running through arduino 1, this seems the most logical given my skills with arduino at the moment
I'm still looking at screens to purchase so other options may be welcomed, however I would like to keep it with 2 arduinos
any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
I also require 2 analogue inputs to be connected to that arduino (lets call this arduino 2) that the Screen can output as a feed once my desired procedure is running, my concern is, is there enough real estate left on the board whilst using a TFT screen and the required shield to connect these inputs,
I guess by real estate you mean if there are pins left. With a Mega2560 you have so many pins that connecting an LCD doesn't need all of them. As you forgot to mention which exact LCD you want to connect we cannot help you further but all LCDs I'm aware of don't use all pins of a Mega2560.
I also need a way of transferring inputted values from the LCD screen and arduino 2, to another arduino (arduino 1 - already setup arduino mega)(not continuously, just once every time i restart the system) that runs a separate program, is it possible again with the space left after the screen has been installed,
Usually it is but you don't tell us details so we cannot tell you more. What distance are the two Arduinos? Why do you need two of them? What amount of data are we talking about? Why do you think that space is important here?
I hope this makes sense and there's probably 1000 better ways of going about this, however with the current infrastructure running through arduino 1, this seems the most logical given my skills with arduino at the moment
If you tell us more about what Arduino 1 is doing we might have solutions that better fit your needs. But without knowing your needs, we cannot help.