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Does anyone have any specs, or guesses as to how much overhead one would incur adding another SERIN / SEROUT command to the main loop?

26ms (standard execution time of one MainLoop: cycle I think) is bad enough... Stretch that much more and your robot response time might not be adequate. There are, of course ways around this, but I'm wondering if it would be better for our time to scrap the 16 pin parallel cable we made to go to the digital inputs in light of using a serial in command.

Does the fact that the Program Port has a true hardware serial port, rather than a software one help things?
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