On 28 Aug 2006 at 23:35, Robert Ammerman wrote:
> > Already doing that as the LCD display and keypad is remote and it
> > has it's own PIC16F88, with comms over an RS232 like interface. I
> > send instructions like "put this string of characters on line 2".
> 
> Why not change the interface to "Display strinig 1 on line 2" and
> store all your strings in the other PIC.

I guess that's a possibility. So far I've kept the keypad/display unit as much like a 
"dumb terminal" as possible, so it's less likely to need firmware updates when things 
change. Source code is also easier to read, eg.  LCD_Line2("Hello") compared to 
LCD_(STRING1, LINE2).

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