A discussion on a MIDI hackers' forum about wireless MIDI gave me some ideas for wireless serial-port solutions. Perhaps this could be a cheaper, simpler, smaller alternative to WiFi, or even ethernet, for all those Duo hackers out there?
And for those trying to hack up cordless phones as wireless modems.
MIDIbox discussion: http://www.midibox.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=misc;action=display;num=1066118673
Wireless serial chips (link corrected to the current model): http://www.linxtechnologies.com/ldocs/modules/m_hp3.shtml
Another version: http://www.linxtechnologies.com/ldocs/modules/m_es.shtml
"Transparent Serial Data Output (56Kbps max.)
Direct Serial Interface
Up to 1000ft"
You'd need 4 chips for a bidirectional serial link - two TX and two RX. And who knows about getting small quantities...
How do I delete this?
It's a good ideia.
You can't. Depending on who you ask it's either a feature or bug of AF2.
Sounds like another thing for Tom to fix.
Hey! The rolling eyes don't work anymore! It just shows a smily with a : in front. Like this: ::)
. . . has never workde in iCab, AFAIK.
Well, thanks, it's good to know other ppl think there's some merit in this. But it's a duplicate of an existing post - I must have hit save twice.
/edit/ meh, I'll just let the old one slide into the distance
The clincher on this is going to be price - the last time I looked into serial RF, the only one I could get a price on was $45 for 9.6kbs full duplex.