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Pyxis OS Lite
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Description: Designed by request this Lite version allows you to run Pyxis OS without an adapter board. Compiled programs are executed from the EEPROM drive using PFAT rather than a uSD drive and the virtual CPU has been moved from the Arduino Mega to the TouchShield Slide.
There are, of course, some draw backs to running the Lite version. The EEPROM is small and you're only going to be able to fit one or two programs in it. Also because the adapter board had moved the TouchShield's RX/TX pins to a hardware serial port, without it Pyxis OS is forced to use a software serial. The software serial on the Arudino Mega is a bit unreliable, which is why we moved the core to the TouchShield. As such all of the pin access commands and serial commands have been removed from the virtual CPU. Programs using these functions will still run, but those functions will return unexpected results.