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mpgx2 · 06-25-2010, 08:00 AM

Hi dcb,

Nice Javaproxy concept... :-)

Well bluetooth keys are as little as $2.95 so the price on
the bluetooth arduino only has space for downward motion.

In a way you are right about arduino and tcp/ip being
overkill. Sure it is only a few feet.

But when I looked at your Java logger, i thought how
much nicer it could be if every device was on it's own
port and could send data in.

Then, I sortof discovered that is what the LIN and
CAN bus do anyway.

So to cut a long story short, it seems to make sense
to have some sort of serial-bus support in any
project that does arduino.

I am told that if you can read the CAN or LIN bus then
a lot of the data that mpguino needs is there.

My friend in Germany also says that you can poke
your own commands on the CAN/LIN bus to do
DIY cruise control and so forth.

So I think that stuff like that could be sort of interesting
/worthwhile.

06-25-2010, 08:00 AM	#183 (permalink)
mpgx2 EcoModding Lurker Join Date: May 2010 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 54 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	bluetooth and bus overkill.. Hi dcb, Nice Javaproxy concept... :-) Well bluetooth keys are as little as $2.95 so the price on the bluetooth arduino only has space for downward motion. In a way you are right about arduino and tcp/ip being overkill. Sure it is only a few feet. But when I looked at your Java logger, i thought how much nicer it could be if every device was on it's own port and could send data in. Then, I sortof discovered that is what the LIN and CAN bus do anyway. So to cut a long story short, it seems to make sense to have some sort of serial-bus support in any project that does arduino. I am told that if you can read the CAN or LIN bus then a lot of the data that mpguino needs is there. My friend in Germany also says that you can poke your own commands on the CAN/LIN bus to do DIY cruise control and so forth. So I think that stuff like that could be sort of interesting /worthwhile.