Creative uses for the USB Port

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06-01-2007, 23:21

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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port

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Originally Posted by JBotAlan

Per <R83>, no.

I'm still not sure what the reasoning is behind this, but there it is. Sorry.

JBot

EDIT: Well, someone beat me to it. Oh well.

I believe the reason is so that one may not offload the RC using, for example, a laptop on the OI side. By receiving sensor info via the dashboard port and sending PWM info and digital output info through the joystick ports, this would be possible.

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