Hey, Patrick,
I've just got my hands on a couple of real cool serial devices that I'd like to hook up to the Empeg. Including GPS (don't have quite yet...), I'd like to add 3 peices of hardware to the serial port. Any updates on your PIC-based IO board? I'd deal with a multi-drop serial board if I could find any relatively small, external devices. So far, the closest I've come is a multiplexor, but those things are ancient, big, and not cheap. I still think an address-based microcontroller that can switch between 3-4 serial ports on demand (1-Byte header or something) would be great, but if there can be any more devices (a/d, d/a, whatever), that's just icing!

Anyone got aspirations to build such a beast? I'd be happy to pay for the hardware, and some of the development (the closest I ever got to this was building a parallel port-controlled robot).
Thanks,
Jason

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