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I am currently working on a project designing a model control boat. My group has decided to send 2 bytes of data serially, one after the other to control the speed and direction of the boat. The baud rate is set at 9.6K. Would there be a problem at the receiver end such that the boat would pause for a reasonable time period before carrying out the next? instruction
I usually think of asynchronous serial as ten bits per byte (one start and one stop bit). Carrying that async protocol over a radio is a little tricky. It's too easy to lose the start bit to noise. Perhaps the radios in question here have their own protocol, and the async link is just to the radio. If not, you might want to think about some sort of synchronous protocol with a more robust sync pattern to mark the start of data. (Don't let that get in the way of getting your prototype working, though.)