> That may be true...however, part of me just wants to build some stuff.
>
> I can get nearly everything I need sampled or cheap thru our distributors,
> so I still might be able to build cheaper than buying.

If you want to wire a new house with some sort of low-overhead LAN for
control projects, take a look at CAN.  You could probably run CAN reliably
at 250Kbits/sec for something the size of a house.


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Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Littleton Massachusetts
(978) 742-9014, olin@embedinc.com, http://www.embedinc.com

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