Talk:Serial Programming/Forming Data Packets

Future Directions/Road Map for this module
I'm going to try and get to data packets sooner or later (probably sometime in early 2006), but I'm trying to come up with a consistant API... or more to the point a bunch of standardized serial communication routines/objects that I can use with these later discussions. As this is a book, I want to build on the previous chapters for this particular module, which means I'm not going to be going into the gritty details of how you get a few characters out, but instead get into how data packets are formed and what their general purposes would be.

Some sample "projects" I'm going to add include:


 * Reading temperature measurements from a temperature probe connected via serial data link.
 * Sample Stock Market data feeds in serial format.
 * or
 * Sports Scores data feed
 * Updating a "time and temperature" display for outdoor advertising

I also want to cover CRC issues in some depth, and attempt to explain error checking algorithms. Most of this, however, will be in Serial Programming:Error Correction Methods, which is ripe for an overhaul as well and not written to build from this module.

If you think this roadmap is going the wrong way, or if there are suggestions on how to teach the concepts of forming data packets, please make mention here. --Rob Horning 05:16, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Problem with a link on the page
Well, the link present on the page as The SLIMP3 Client Protocol is not functional.

I temporarily replaced the link with another one that i found on that site which is present there now as The SLIMP3 Client Protocol, you may check whether it is the same one or some other.

But as that site is still under contruction so maybe you should replace the link with some equivalent from some other site to avoid future problems (you see, they replace a CGI page with a PHP one, assuming i have provided the link to the same page)...

Great work anyways. Thank you (: --Xenodevil (talk) 21:03, 11 December 2008 (UTC)