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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
Most of the pins on the programming port aren't used. I made a pair of "breakout" connectors that steal pins 7, 8, and 9 from the programming cable and provide remote control of the robot reset and program buttons. The RC end has a "pwm" cable connector for the remote switch pins, and the computer end has a two-way rocker switch with red=RESET and green=PROG sides (though a pair of momentary switches would work too).
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I DEFINITELY love that... throwing this out there, any ideas why sometimes IFI Loader can put the RC into program mode and then mysteriously cannot most other times?
I'm definitely going to look into doing a breakout connector like the one shown.
I actually wrote an implementation of some code that I can drop in at a later date today to allow the printfs to become obsolete and use the dashboard instead... I suppose its on to creating a dashboard prog to run on a pocketpc, palm, or somethin else.
"If mechanical can have their labeled blocks of wood for tap and drill sets, electrical can have their helping hands to solder, us programmers can DEFINITELY have all that and more. "
~D. Mishra
