Thread: how to build a VEX programming module
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Unread 09-07-2005, 23:43
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Re: how to build a VEX programming module
allow me to correct myself... rx1 and rx2 are connected to the master 18f8520, so you don't have access to them at all. all the master does is listen on rx1 and rx2 and decode the incoming pwm then send the information via the spi bus to the user controller which is the one you can actually program. i think it probably also resets the user controller and kicks it into the serial bootloader when the program button on the programming module is pushed.

by the way, radio shack announced pricing on their programming module and it's the same $99 as the prototype from ifi but will include easyc, so if you can stand to wait a month or so...

in other news, my laptop decided to die yesterday for my 51st birthday so i'm now without a windows box to program my kit. guess it's time to knuckle done and learn to run wine.
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