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Unread 02-03-2008, 15:09
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Re: Custom Circuit Design

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Originally Posted by 114Klutz View Post
This isn't considered anything especially complex to do - nor is it unique. Even if the ICD2 header was open, and someone reversed engineered it, people would be required to purchase and use the KOP boards anyways, and I haven't heard of anyone buying the RCs separately for use in other applications.
I have a feeling that they may use the i2c bus to handle communications with the modem. If this is the case and they exposed a header to connect to it, then it would be theoretically possible to interfere with this (either accidentally or intentionally). This might allow a robots output to be active while in disabled mode, which would be a large safety issue.