[foobert]

it's a wee little surface mount thingy so small that i needed a magnifying glass and had to hold it just so to the light in order to be able to tell that it was a pic at all. this puppy will never be socketed.

if one had enough serial ports one could watch what goes in and compare it to what goes out. i figure the button just causes the master controller on the vex to reset the user controller and kick it into a bootloader. can't imagine what goes on that would require another pic in the middle unless it's just a form of obfuscation to confuse things enough so radio shack can sell us programmers.