Hey!
So I have two Arduinos. One is a Duemilanove and one is a Nano. The Duemilanove receives DMX data, and I want to send 5 channels of the data to the Nano to send over the serial port to my computer. I can't use the Duemilanove to do that, because it's communicating with the timer chip (for DMX receive). I don't think I can use digital read/write and connect 5 wires to the digital outs of one to the digital ins on the other right? Because digitalRead/Write can only produce HIGH and LOW.
Any ideas on how to do this?
Arduinos sending data between each other
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Re: Arduinos sending data between each other
You should be able to use SoftwareSerial on the Duemilanove to send it back to the computer. Unless I am missing something, having a Nano as a middle-man doesn't offer much value.I want to send 5 channels of the data to the Nano to send over the serial port to my computer. I can't use the Duemilanove to do that, because it's communicating with the timer chip (for DMX receive).
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Re: Arduinos sending data between each other
Well it's communicating with the timer chip at 25,000 baud through the serial port - so it's in use. I need another Arduino to send the incoming DMX data to my computer using serial.
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Re: Arduinos sending data between each other
OH! SoftwareSerial!!! BRILLIANT I'll definitely try that out asap. Thanks, a lot!
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