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Re: Mission Mayhem 2007

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Help please to anyone who will be at Mayhem Saturday; we have a few fried components and are looking for:

1) a laptop with EasyC Pro installed; we weren't able to download code tonight - some kind of COM port problem with our laptop. I think I can come up with another one, but just in case.
2) radio modem (I'm assuming earlier years will be allowed). Our '07 modem has died. It was quick and painless. Our '06 has a broken antenna, but we may be able to fix it.
3) pneumatic tubing. We went through quite a bit of it with various arm removal activities (some intentional, some not - Thanks to Barry B's team).

thanks
An update:
Got the COM port fixed; the IT guy at work said to uninstall it and let windows reinstall it; runs fine now.
So, I was able to download the code to the '06 controller. Runs fine.
So then, I tried the '07 modem; it works fine too. I guess all the problems were in the '07 controller.

It took a total of 5 minutes to do all that; too bad I couldn't do it in the hour and a half that I had 20 kids watching me Wednesday night.

So, HAZE has a radio controlled robot again. I guess all we need to do in the morning is rerun the pneumatics (and make a few improvements to the arm).
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