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afch / NixeTubesShieldNCS314

Firmware (Sketch) for Arduino UNO/MEGA and GRA & AFCH Nixie Tubes Shield NCS314-4 Tubes, NCS314-6 Tubes and NCS312-6 Tubes by GRA & AFCH
https://www.gra-afch.com
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Any plans to support Serial Slave Operation? #3

Open bravecorvus opened 6 years ago

bravecorvus commented 6 years ago

So I know currently you guys don't support Slave via Serial USB, but do you have any plans to add this in the future? (like this

afch commented 6 years ago

We did not plan to do this in the near future. But we are sure that it will not be difficult at all to transfer this functional from the old version. In addition, we have an experimental adapter for connecting our shields to the RaspberryPI. dsc01003 dsc01020_ dsc01019

gubagu commented 6 years ago

Why not to esp8266 instead of raspberry? RPI is such an overkill for a clock. Though it could be a bit of a hassle if you the project uses a lot pwm pins. esp8266 has only one analog pin ...

bravecorvus commented 6 years ago

True, but essentially in already using a Pi for the alarm functionality for my project. So I thought I might as well try to utilize NTP to control the nixie displays as well.