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I'm looking at connecting a master BX-24 to two slave BX-24s, with the master communicating 20 bytes of data at 50x a second to each of the two slaves. Com3 isn't going to be fast enough (50*2*20*8 = 16,000 which is far too close to 19,200 for comfort!) so I'm looking at either using Com1 or setting the communication using ShiftIn & ShiftOut. Since I'd rather keep Com1 free for other purposes, I'd prefer the latter option. Has anyone any experience / advice abouut setting up direct communication between BX-24s using ShiftIn & ShiftOut? I'm thinking about a protocol based on I2C. Any other good suggestions?

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