Re: Re: Displays round the house

[Stuart Poulton <swp@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Stuart,

There is a problem with 1-wire, the cost of development of
"legal"=
;
slaves is prohibative.

Plus it's not as robust as TCP/IP

Stuart


On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 08:55, Stuart Grimshaw wrote:
> Did you see the 1-wire LCD displays on offer a few months ago? You
cou=
ld buy 
> the controller and as long as the VFD uses the same comms between it
a=
nd the 
> controller, you could buy one ready built ... 
> 
> On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 8:43 am, Stuart Poulton wrote:
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> >
> > Just looked on RS, CAN Bus controller chips come in at ~
=A35-=A3=
6 since a
> > 10mbs ethernet chip is =A36.50 , I think the east of using
ethern=
et still
> > appeals.
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 08:35, Frank Mc Alinden wrote:
> > > Hi Des
> > >         Have you
had=
a look at Can Bus ,its very popular in the
> > > industrial field .Can have multi master and the Can bus
chip=
apparently
> > > looks after bus collisions etc . Dave Mc Laughlin has done
s=
ome project
> > > work on in . Also Microchip amongst others have Can bus
cont=
roller
> > > chip,,,,,,,,,,,

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