Hackaday: RS485 is a communication standard that should be part of the advanced hardware hacker’s arsenal; it’s not commonly encountered, but powerful exactly when you need it. It’s a physical layer interface for wired communications that uses a single differential pair for noise immunity, has good long-distance properties, and allows many connections to a single bus.
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Coding absolutely blows my mind. I understand it fundamentally but at the end of the day, it does not make sense in my head. Additionally, everyone who does understand it has my respect. This article taught me the very basics of how to start my very own RS485 which from my very basic understanding is a thing that creates communication between different pieces of equipment. It seems like this piece of equipment has a lot of useful features that help streamline the process. It was interesting to learn that anything below a “noticeable amount of data loss or corruption” is normal. Additionally, it seems that even more serious matters are not causing alarm. Overall, this article was written in a way where I was able to learn something even if I didn’t understand most of what they were trying to explain. It is definitely an article that is formatted for a more niche audience.
This may not have been the best article for me to read, as I am not familiar with coding at all. However, what I was able to grasp was very interesting and makes some sense. I agree that the RS 485 most definitely should become an essential communication standard, especially in the hardware realm of coding. Though it is hard for me to wrap my mind around the logistics of it, it seems quite transferable to hardware in theater as well such as lighting, VMD, and even sound engineering. As I was reading, it also made me wonder if it would be possible to converse it with automation software seeing as it is great for automatic systems. It seems as this hacker dictionary is meant to make hardware system applications accessible and easier to use over all. I am curious to see an opinion from someone who is actually into hardware engineering to compare with this outside perspective of mine on the RS 485.
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