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Originally posted by rbayer
Anyway, does anybody know if doing another shiftout will let you choose new variables to serin?
We have also thought of this, but have not tried it, yet. If they really mean initialize the master uP, then it probably wouldn't work in competition, becasue I would guess that you would lose radio communication.

Back to the original question, make sure you use write sparingly. EEPROMs only have a limited number of write cycles. The highest I've seen for consumer level EEPROMS is 1 million (and it's most often less). If you write during each program loop, you will wear out the EEPROM after 200 2 minute matches. While this may seem like a lot, when you consider debugging, and demos, you will definelty wear it out by the end.