Quote Originally Posted by Charles Linquis View Post
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Being a master is easy - you can start talking whenever you are ready. Being a slave is harder - you have to grab the data asynchronously, whenever it comes along.
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And that would explain why I used USART to talk between Master-Slave PICs, and used I2C to talk to eeproms and I/O Expanders. lol

That project dates back to 2005-2006, it's been a while.