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der_wille_zur_macht · 10/01/2010, 07:20 AM

Fair enough! This Typhon project is definitely on a smaller scale than the Apex or any other full-functioning commercial controller, and such controllers are definitely more in the realm of the Hydra.

Though, on that note, I did put pinouts for I2C and TTL serial on the Typhon, so if someone started with a Typhon and later decided they wanted to do MORE than just control LEDs, it would be really easy to add "expansion modules" to include other functionality - control of a relay board, or reading temperature and pH, and so on. Once I get the basic Typhon out the door, I'm hoping to work on some "reference designs" for such expansion modules.

10/01/2010, 07:20 AM	#158
der_wille_zur_macht Team RC Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NY Posts: 17,749	Fair enough! This Typhon project is definitely on a smaller scale than the Apex or any other full-functioning commercial controller, and such controllers are definitely more in the realm of the Hydra. Though, on that note, I did put pinouts for I2C and TTL serial on the Typhon, so if someone started with a Typhon and later decided they wanted to do MORE than just control LEDs, it would be really easy to add "expansion modules" to include other functionality - control of a relay board, or reading temperature and pH, and so on. Once I get the basic Typhon out the door, I'm hoping to work on some "reference designs" for such expansion modules. __________________ Inconveniencing marine life since 1992 "It is my personal belief that reef aquaria should be thriving communities of biodiversity, representative of their wild counterparts, and not merely collections of pretty specimens growing on tidy clean rock shelves covered in purple coralline algae." (Eric Borneman)