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Re: Hardware Hack
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 7 Jul 2001 03:41:30 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net&nomorespam&>
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Roy Wood wrote:

It seems intriguing that there are 8 A/D converters and/or 8 input-only
pins, and we've got access to only 3 inputs.  Are the others just not
connected?

The four buttons on the front panel and the IR data port probably make up the
remaining 5 inputs.

I guess you could consider wiring up at least two of the front panel buttons
to sensors since they aren't used when the program is running - but presumably
you'd have to use something like LegOS in order to take advantage of them.

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  RE: Hardware Hack
 
(...) Nope. One of the inputs is used for the battery level, the other 4 are unused as far as I know. The on/off button is connected to a hard interrupt line for the sleep function, and the other 3 butons are on an IO port. It's all in Kekoa's (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Hardware Hack
 
(...) I'm sure that someone will mention the HandyBoard, which works well with Lego sensors and motors (I believe). Along the same line of thought though, I noticed at the Mindstorms Internal site on crynwr that the RCX CPU supports the following: (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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