Yes. I'm attempting to emulate another protocol used by the do-it-yourself
Christmas lights community.

But using DMX512 is also a possibility.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Forrest Christian
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:54 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [PIC] Cheapest uC with a UART?
> 
> Matthew Mucker wrote:
> > Yep, it's a Christmas lights controller.  And yes, the zero-crossing
> > detection will be sent to the box as well.  I'm planning on a 4
> channel
> > board but want to be able to daisy chain lots of boards (the current
> goal is
> > 128 boards for 512 channels on the bus).
> >
> Is there a reason why you aren't simply trying to emulate DMX512?
> 
> http://www.dmx512-online.com
> 
> -forrest
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