BLOWN COMPONENT! In need of 2004 Robot controller to borrow for 2 days

[Hinkel Y.]

How did you blow your RC? Anyways, I hope you guys can get the RC in time and program C language into it... Good luck!

[Michael Luedtke]

We must have had a random arc or fell prey to static electricity. The unit eprom does not retain the program. Everytime you boot, it never keeps the program in memory. We went through everything, and it was the robot controller itself. Thanks for your posts, and I'll see you at the NJ regionals Elgin.

It was quite a bit of work getting it to run in pbasic though. I was hoping someone had an extra we could have used in the interim.

--M

[Tom Bottiglieri]

hold up.. you may not have a blown controller.. the same thign happened to us. What LED's are on when you boot up? Is it falling back into the program state every time you restart?

[Michael Luedtke]

yellow on program, and green on power. Only the two are lit.

--M

[Tom Bottiglieri]

u guys are in luck... all u need to do is read team update #9... but to save u the agony of looking i will tell u what to do.
1) Hold both the program and reset buttons.
2)Then, let go of reset
3)Wait until the power led is solid green.
4)let go of program
5) download the program
6)hit reset

You should now be set to go!

[Michael Luedtke]

It does keep falling into the program state.

--M

[Michael Luedtke]

Thanks!!!!

--m