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Originally Posted by Matt H.
Please dont use a paper clip to short out the pins. We still have a fried OI from when our first club president decided we didn't need a dongle. Shorting the wrong pins could leaving you with out a method to test your autonomous code period.
AndyMark sells a very nice dongle for a reasonable price. It can be found here http://www.andymark.biz/am-0016.html |
Or make it yourself, which saves you the hassle of having to wait for it to come in the mail. If you have a radio shack nearby, look for
a switch, and a
15 pin soldering connector. Wire the 8th and 5th pins to the switch, put it on a box (we used a cardboard box, just to give you an example). We added a disable-robot switch as well, using the 6th pin. Don't know if you'd want that.