pic: 1501 Electronics Board

[chrisr]

Originally Posted by Goober!!!

WOW it looks great!!! "Wait I'm on this team of course i have seen it", but today i wasn't there to see the finish bit of it!!!
P.S.:SHHHHHHHHH my team doesn't know that i skipped to go play paint ball!!!

---We do now, Goob!!!! No power tools for a week!

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by Goober!!!

P.S.:SHHHHHHHHH my team doesn't know that i skipped to go play paint ball!!!

I already did know that!

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

GOOBER!!! Your pay has been docked 8 hours

Good Job, Wayne

Originally Posted by Rickertsen2

Looks very nice but also large and heavy.

Thank you, and yes it does weigh a bit, but with the way our team designs and builds our robot we can add some extra weighted stuff like this.

Originally Posted by geeknerd99

I spy the serial TTL-whatever card plugged into the robot controller. Perhaps it's a functional camera that 1501 has managed to get to work?

Camera... who knows it could just be for decoration, it could be to trick you, it could just be there to add extra electronic coolness, or we could really have a camera.... who knows...........

[Tureyhall]

PLEASE tell me that's an external FPU under that censor bar........... i want an FPU on the robot SOOOOOO bad........

[Chris_Elston]

Experience is the name of the game... At first you don't succeed, try, try, again.

Camera Video....

Originally Posted by geeknerd99

I spy the serial TTL-whatever card plugged into the robot controller. Perhaps it's a functional camera that 1501 has managed to get to work?

[Eldarion]

Originally Posted by roboticsguy1988

Camera... who knows it could just be for decoration, it could be to trick you, it could just be there to add extra electronic coolness, or we could really have a camera.... who knows...........

Well, seeing as you would be at a great disadvantage in this game without the camera, and your program port is tied to the breaker panel, and the TTL converter's PWM cable appears to go nowhere, and there aren't any PWM cables coming out of the censored area, we can logically deduce you have the camera behind that bar.

Or not...

Also, I see you added the remote program / reset buttons to your robot.

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by Eldarion

Well, seeing as you would be at a great disadvantage in this game without the camera, and your program port is tied to the breaker panel, and the TTL converter's PWM cable appears to go nowhere, and there aren't any PWM cables coming out of the censored area, we can logically deduce you have the camera behind that bar.

Or not...

Also, I see you added the remote program / reset buttons to your robot.

Sorry to say its not a camera behind the censored box but your starting to think along the right lines.

My hint to everyone: Look at the cables that go to the censored box, there is TTL, remote program / reset cable, program cable, tether, breaker panel cable, and then a non connected PWM cable (what could that be for?).

It seems most of you are thinking either too high tech or too simple, you got to go in between the two.

[Eldarion]

Originally Posted by roboticsguy1988

Sorry to say its not a camera behind the censored box but your starting to think along the right lines.

My hint to everyone: Look at the cables that go to the censored box, there is TTL, remote program / reset cable, program cable, tether, breaker panel cable, and then a non connected PWM cable (what could that be for?).

It seems most of you are thinking either too high tech or too simple, you got to go in between the two.

OK, a couple of ideas.

Could it be an ultrasonic ranging head, or perhaps just a connector that allows the electronics board to be easily taken off of and put back on the robot?

Can I get a confirmation that it is not an auxiliary processor, or would that be revealing too much?

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by Eldarion

OK, a couple of ideas.

Could it be an ultrasonic ranging head, or perhaps just a connector that allows the electronics board to be easily taken off of and put back on the robot?

Can I get a confirmation that it is not an auxiliary processor, or would that be revealing too much?

No to the first two. But it does make things simpler for everyone, well except for the person making and wiring this custom piece(me).

Its not an auxiliary processor, besides wouldn't that violate the rules?

[devicenull]

Originally Posted by roboticsguy1988

No to the first two. But it does make things simpler for everyone, well except for the person making and wiring this custom piece(me).

Its not an auxiliary processor, besides wouldn't that violate the rules?

It could be, as long as it's in the cost requirements. The Edu-RC fits, I believe, but that's kind of pointless to be adding. Could be some sort of linux machine for processing other stuff (GumStix?)

[BoyWithCape195]

Am I the only person that the picture shows up as broken to? (small box with small red X in it)

[Eldarion]

Originally Posted by BoyWithCape195

Am I the only person that the picture shows up as broken to? (small box with small red X in it)

Only one so far. What browser and operating system are you using?

[BoyWithCape195]

Explorer 6.0.2900.2180

Windows XP Professional

[mechanicalbrain]

I spy with my little eye flag terminals. Sheathed ones no less, nice. Ive only found one supplier, may I ask where yours came from?

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain

I spy with my little eye flag terminals. Sheathed ones no less, nice. Ive only found one supplier, may I ask where yours came from?

Radioshack, a bit more than i would like to pay, but well worth the cost, or at least i think.

[Eldarion]

Originally Posted by roboticsguy1988

No to the first two. But it does make things simpler for everyone, well except for the person making and wiring this custom piece(me).

I think I figured it out! I found this while browsing ChiefDelphi, and it matches your description perfectly.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...gle&picid=9458

The only thing that puzzles me is the camera TTL converter cable going into the censored area, but I suppose it could exit along the bottom just as easily.