I was wondering if the ModelT is fast enough to process I2C data,
considering that the data is clocked by the sender.

I know I can always use an Arduino to talk to I2C devices, and then use
RS232 to talk to the arduino from my ModelT, but cutting out the middle
device seems useful.

Also - I'm presuming that any such device would need to connect to the
system connector through some bit of interface circuitry. I had originally
thought that the barcode port would be ideal, except that it's input only.
(I guess a small device that took parallel input/output from the system bus
and strobed it over the I2C bus, and which delivered return bytes with an
interrupt signal would be fairly simple to create, and be less of a load on
the ModelT, but that's just rampant speculation. The added complication of
not messing with REX could invalidate this idea though.)

I don't have a pressing application for doing I2C with my ModelT, since as
I've mentioned, there's always the Arduino, but I thought if anyone had
experimented or even just daydreamed about such things, it would be the
members of this list. :)

Thanks,
/hdan

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