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Unread 04-03-2006, 21:13
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Re: The 8.2 (or 8.3) Battery Voltage Bug

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Originally Posted by chris31
I want to test our code with a new version of the camera code. Kevin Watson used interupts to handle serial port data, i beilive. And if i recall this is the only space. If i take that code out and dont use any interupts, will this still happen? We will just have to wait and see. Just a warning to all other teams, watch out. Its a match killer.
Just FYI, the camera code uses a serial port driver that teams have been using for over a year now without a problem. The camera, once initialized, only sends a few hundred bytes of information per second, which is easily handled by the PIC microcontroller.

-Kevin
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