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Re: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 26 Nov 1998 00:53:24 GMT
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Kekoa Proudfoot <kekoa@Graphics.Stanford.EDU>
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> the only possibility of any [physical damage to the brick would be if
> Lego did a poor hardware design job and you could program something into
> an overload state (like on the old IBM fixed frequency VGA monitors
> ;-).
Er? Since when you rewrite the firmware, you can take full control of the
i/o pins of the H8, it seems perfectly possible to me to drive inputs as
outputs and fry something you didn't mean to fry...
You have to be careful to make sure you don't do this to the wrong pairs of
ports, if such pairs exist.
-Kekoa
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 | | Re: legOS
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| Guys, Everyone seems to be missing one point: The RCX does have ROM code (this is what loads the firmware the first time, right?). If you were to "jam up" the firmware, you could just simply remove the batteries, let the firmware (which must be in (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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