Programing Help again...

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Posted by Adam Anderson.

Student on team #236, Lyme Old Lyme High School, from Lyme Old Lyme High School and Northeast Utilities.

Posted on 1/24/2000 8:57 AM MST



I have been doing some research... and found a rather accurate real time clock that has serial I/O i was woundering if this would be allowed to use...

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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 1/24/2000 9:41 AM MST


In Reply to: Programing Help again... posted by Adam Anderson on 1/24/2000 8:57 AM MST:



Sadly, you can not use it. Unless as something other than a conductor of electricity.

Don't know the chapter & verse, but I believe that their is a rule against anything not on the list conductiong electricity.

Sorry.

Joe J

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Posted by Jerry Eckert.

Engineer from Looking for a team in Raleigh, NC sponsored by .

Posted on 1/24/2000 9:52 AM MST


In Reply to: Programing Help again... posted by Adam Anderson on 1/24/2000 8:57 AM MST:



: I have been doing some research... and found a rather accurate real time clock that has serial I/O i was woundering if this would be allowed to use...

No. See rules C5, K1.

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Posted by Ben Hebert.

Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Gunn High School and Sun Microsystems/NASA Ames/Xerox PARC/Nortel Networks/Scitor/Alan Steel/Madco/Vanderbend.

Posted on 1/25/2000 9:41 PM MST


In Reply to: Programing Help again... posted by Adam Anderson on 1/24/2000 8:57 AM MST:



Unfortunately, this is illegal, but there are other methods of receiving time information that are more kosher. What I would attempt, were I doing anything that required knowledge of elapsed time, is the write the programs control structure such that all possible control paths contain equal numbers and kinds of instructions. The program's run-time will then be constant, and can be measured with a simple set-up. This sounds like a pain, and it is, but it worked for me last year with the gyro-chip. Good Luck!