How-To: Daisy Chain Arduinos via Serial

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Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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December 3rd, 2012 8

If you have a project that uses a bunch of Arduinos, how can you get them to communicate together? Scott Lawrence from The Geodesic Sphere shows us how to daisy chain multiple Arduinos together via their serial ports. He used this technique for his long-term Animatronic Avian project inspired by Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room. [via Hack A Day]