Just taking a moment to geek out. I finished my arduino code for my home HVAC project and decided to give it a burn in test tonight. I have 5 DS18S20 temperature sensors connected via parasitic 1-wire to pin 10 on a boarduino. My code just goes out and does a beacon looking for any 1-wire devices on the network and then queries them. It takes that data, turns it from hex to a Fahrenheit temperature and then prints a colon delimited string with that information out onto the serial port. I had been using just 1 probe, so tonight I decided for giggles to hot add 4 more. I smacked the ICs onto the breadboard while everything was running and what do you know, the code picked the new units up and never skipped a beat! Cool!
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