/challenges-projects/design-challenges/ultimate-roadtest/b/blog/posts/the-bread-butter-03May 1st: A Network of MSP430sSo getting my little network was not as easy as I had hoped. Sure it is simple enough but I kept running into problems or just making very silly mistakes. In my last blog post I showed you a picture of how I would lay outen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/ultimate-roadtest/b/blog/posts/the-bread-butter-03Tue, 01 May 2012 19:34:12 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:0f01a2cb-b3f5-4f91-bb63-80e4a1fedaefDAB0<p>Hi Nick,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You might want to keep your eye out for potential ground loop problems.</p><p>You might consider adding some optical isolators between the boards so that you do not create an artifical ground loop between the boards.</p><p>Your wirelessly connected nodes should be OK, but if you have wire connections, you might get into some problems.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Other than that, it looks good.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=14174&AppID=113&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">