Re: Some forward movement on Virtual Serial Host

[fx <sfxman@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, January 6, 2013 1:58:45 PM UTC-5, Kevin wrote:
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> > Whiteout forgetting ADTPro date/time getting function. About it, you could put an date/time IC in your PCB to interfacing with AVR ;)
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> I have a rtc (realtime clock) the problem with it is all the cheap ones are i2c interface, which is a pig of a io and is using too much ram atm.

Hey, this is a very cool project! I will have to try this out.

Regarding the RTC, the ATMega328 does have a hardware i2c interface. You don't need to waste a lot of time waiting IO. Your code can do other stuff while you're waiting for the i2c slave to respond.