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Re: It's awfully quiet in here
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:27:57 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Mike Walters wrote:
> The final days of the MDP selection process has turned
> the robotics board into a ghost town.
Well, I'm mostly quiet because I'm just coming back from a set of robot games
in Northern Indiana, where I was only able to enter two robots... and one of
them didn't run at all due to a dead (& I mean DEAD) RCX. So anybody want to
help out with some info here? It's a 1.0, and if I plug it in it will power up,
but the moment I pull the plug, dead. The impact was on the left rear corner,
and flattened the ABS slightly.
So my conclusion is I screwed up something in the battery power section, but
*not* (at least obviously) in the motherboard or AC adaptor. Any ideas? Do I
open it (and if so, how)?
As to the games, I took third in line-following, but I hate that stupid
bloody NEIRG maze - even if my robot had been working, it wouldn't have done
well. But the LafLRC 3T robots (they play Tic-Tac-Toe) were a really big hit
with kids and adults alike, and LEGO sumo was fun for all. A LOT of kids in the
stock RIS class, and some very nice entries in the LEGO open class, although I
missed most of it, watching kids play with the Tic-Tac-Toe 'bots.
--
Brian Davis
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Brian, the battery clips are soldered onto the RCX's main board. A good solid jolt might have managed to unsolder one of them, or crack the corner of the board. JB (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: It's awfully quiet in here
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| (...) Bob Fay wrote a tutorial about that: (URL) probably the springs blades that make connection from batteries to RCX board are bent (See photo 4 of Bob tutorial). Though these blades are not normally soldered to the board (despite John's post (...) (19 years ago, 28-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| This is kind of eerie. The final days of the MDP selection process has turned the robotics board into a ghost town. I expect a flurry of activity as soon as everybody has officially learned their results. One other possibility is that there are lots (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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