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Originally Posted by whytheheckme
Thats a great idea. How would I convert the data stream from the dashboard port to something usable in PBASIC? We have some of those old robot controllers, but they couldn't be directly compatible with today's data stream. The LED chip drivers would be easy to obtain, so that wouldn't be a problem.
Again, Thanks for the Idea,
Jacob Komar
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My PBASIC is a little rusty, but isn't there a SERIN command?
It should be a simple matter of parsing the datastream for the flag bytes (255,255), and then loading the packet bytes into a buffer.
The dashboard datastream isn't anything special, just a bunch of characters sent at 19200 baud.
See the specification here:
http://robotics.dyndns.org/DATASHEET...BOARD_SPEC.pdf
Hope this helps!
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