[FTC]: New Android Control System

[RecycledElectro]

Originally Posted by DavisDad

What I don't know:

As you posted later on, the Modern Robotics site (http://modernroboticsinc.com/) has a lot of this info. I am reposting it here to make it easier to find.

Originally Posted by DavisDad

1. How the Modern Robotics Inc. (MRI) components control information between the ZTE type phone and the robot's functions.

There is a MicroUSB to MiniUSB cable that connects the phone to the "Core Power Distribution Module." That module apparently acts as a PowerPole splitter and as a USB hub. It gives You access to 7 USB ports that can take the various MRI modules.

These modules connect with a USB-A-Male to MiniUSB cable. At first I wondered why they went with the (almost obsolete) MiniUSB connectors, but it makes sense. It will prevent wrong signals being fed into phones, which stop working once they loose their smoke.

Example code is on their web site.

Originally Posted by DavisDad

1. For off the shelf sensors, what are the signal inputs? They look like 3-pin analog.

The "Core Device Interface Module" seems to support everything: 8 digital I/O, 8 analog in, 2 analog out, 2 PWM out, and an I2C bus with 6 drops run to pins. They do not state any reason why we can not use more than one of these if we wish.
http://modernroboticsinc.com/core-de...terface-module


Andrew