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Re: Service pack 5111 - Wires - no longer available
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:09:54 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.SAYNOTOSPAMnet>
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Andy Gombos wrote:
> > Yes - but in this hypothetical nightmarish world, there would be no single
> > motors to buy, no official cables to connect things with, etc.
> >
> > In short, there would be no point in hacking into "the box". You might
> > just as well go completely non-standard/non-Lego and just build a suitable
> > computer with whatever motors you fancy.
> >
> > You might use Lego for the *structure* of the robot - but all of the
> > electronics might as well be fully custom.
>
>
> The current parts could be used - you would have to find alternatives, but
> bringing an output out, then using the currently standard motor and wires,
> you have your expandability back in a fashion.
Well, I guess - but the Spybotics firmware wouldn't know how to
drive the extra motor - unless it replaced one of the built-in motors
which would then be 'dead weight'.
I think you'd have to be pretty desperate to want to do that...especially
(as has been suggested) the Spybotics stuff is 4.5v internally.
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| (...) There are 7 outputs used to drive the Spybot LEDs. These are each individually programmable with the existing firmware. These outputs could easily be hacked to control additional motors using an external 9V battery box and some simple (...) (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Baker" <sjbaker1@airmail.net> To: "Andy Gombos" <gombos_2000@earthlink.net> Cc: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Service pack 5111 - Wires - no longer (...) (22 years ago, 2-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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