AVR-Chat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Mitchell" <tim@sabretechnology.co.uk>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:30 AM
Subject: RE: [AVR-Chat] When boyscouts say one for all, all for one


> Leon wrote:
>> 
>> RS-485 is one way. You could also daisy-chain the slaves and use the
>> UARTs, with each slave passing the message onto the next. You will
>> need some sort of addressing system; when the correct slave
>> identifies the message, it performs the desired action otherwise it
>> passes it on to the next slave. 
> 
> No, RS485 is not one-way, each node can transmit or receive. You are
> thinking of RS422 which has separate inputs and outputs.

I meant that it is one way to do it, not that the comms are one way. 8-)

Leon