How to connect the R/C receiver?!

[Tim Skloss]

Where does one find PWM leads with the proper, UNSHROUDED connector that can plug into the new EduBot controller? We are looking for 3 inch leads with unshrouded pins.

All the hobby stores in town and on the internet (Tower, Horizon, Lobby, etc.) only sell the wires with shrouds around the pins. The shrouds keep you from plugging into the Edubot!

Only Innovation FIRST seems to have these leads, but we don't want to put six 24 inch-long leads on the Edubot just to connect to the receiver!

If money was not a problem, we would buy micro receivers which have the PWM pins prodruding past the receiver housing. That way we could plug the receiver directly into the EduBot controller.

But money is tight... and we are all VERY DISSAPPOINTED in FIRST that they required us to go out and buy an expensive R/C radio without warning! The best deal we have found is for the Tower Hobbies 6 channel FM kit without servos for $99. But we still need the leads!


Now only a bit of the Edubot (software) is like the real robot.