Ron K. Jeffries wrote: > I think the so-called UART card > for Ben Nanonote is (prepare yourself) > a bridge too far.
Maybe. Depends on the use case. E.g., if you were thinking of hooking something up to the Ben's TX/RX pads and just didn't like the idea of running some cables deep on the inside of the machine, then the UART board as presently designed should be perfect for you. (No hw flow control either, same voltage levels, doesn't add much bulk.) > My current preference would be to > use the UBbb(universal Ben Breakout Board) I definitely hope UBB will be popular as a general low-overhead extension mechanism. > It might also sprout a few LEDs which help greatly when trying to > speak serial to a device that you have not seen before. FWIW, the current UART board has a LED :-) > In my world, it would be ok/fine for this larger and more > capable serial board to have it's own power from > one or two AA batteries. Oh, you can draw a bit of power from the Ben, no problem. - Werner _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
