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Re: data bus

Just how much data do you think you'll want to be passing between devices? The I/O is certainly fast enough for communicating with sensors and adjusting the motors based on the data. I'm assuming that part of the goal of using an external device is to preprocess information and give simple answers to the Robot Controller. If you're planning to read large amounts of data from the device, what benefit do you expect to get from using it?