Hello,
I want to drive a number of LEDs, switches, sensors, servos, etc from a serial bus. Think all the components you would need for a robitics project, or a pinball machine. The individual devices being controlled will be quite simple (usually on/off switches or LEDs), but there will be 100s of them. I want to use a serial bus so that there aren't a ton of wires floating around, and I want to control the whole set up from a PC. It seems like 1-Wire might be a good solution, but I don't know enough about either electronics or 1-Wire to know for sure. Is this a good use for 1-Wire?
I'm a programmer by trade, so this may be either very easy, or very difficult. Please let me know, and if there are any good websites on doing this type of work, please let me know that as well.
Thanks! Erick