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Joe's nick name for a useful device
Posted by Joe Johnson at 1/12/2001 12:56 PM EST
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems. In Reply to: Can anyone tell me what a "Yellow Dongal" is? Posted by Bryan Duggan on 1/12/2001 8:42 AM EST: "Yellow Dongle" is the name of the device that we use to plug into the competition port of the Operator Interface that accomplishes 3 things (ours happens to have a yellow case -- not needed but nice since it is very visible from a distance): #1: It provides a means to disable your robot quickly #2: It provides a visual indication of that your robot is enabled (it is the complement of the "disable" LED on the OI) and the dongle is attached properly (which is important for #3 below) #3: It provides a means of accessing the channels other than channel 40 (3, 13, 22 and 31 as I recall, but don't quote me). This is important if you want to have a little multi-robot practice without FIRST's competition controllers. I will post some pictures and a whitepaper on this topic this weekend (I hope). I have the photos taken, I just need to fill in the text. Sounds easy... ...wish me luck. Joe J. |
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