Posted by Nate Smith.
Other on team #66, GM Powertrain/Willow Run HS, from Eastern Michigan University and GM Powertrain.
Posted on 4/13/2000 12:51 PM MST
Anybody else been interested in what’s inside that ‘black box’ also known as the Robot Controller? Well, I was wandering the Innovation First web site today, and happened to wander into their ‘suppliers’ page…take a look at the link below…
Posted by Matt Leese.
Student on team #7 from Parkville High School and NASA, Black & Decker, AAI, Raytheon.
Posted on 4/13/2000 5:49 PM MST
In Reply to: A peak under the hood… posted by Nate Smith on 4/13/2000 12:51 PM MST:
I got to see the Innovation FIRST guys trying to fix one at nationals, although it was for a relatively short period of time (I was trying to get something else done and was in a hurry). The main thing that I’ve noticed is that although supposedly (correct me if I’m wrong) there are three Basic Stamp 2X chips in the Robot Controller I can only see chips in pairs on the board. Of what would definately appear to be the Basic Stamp Chips (the large ones that appear to be on removable mountings, I can’t remember what they look like exactly from last years control box), there are only two. Someone want to tell me what I’m missing here?
Posted by Nate Smith.
Other on team #66, GM Powertrain/Willow Run HS, from Eastern Michigan University and GM Powertrain.
Posted on 4/13/2000 6:10 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: A peak under the hood… posted by Matt Leese on 4/13/2000 5:49 PM MST:
: The main thing that I’ve noticed is that although supposedly (correct me if I’m wrong) there are three Basic Stamp 2X chips in the Robot Controller I can only see chips in pairs on the board. Of what would definately appear to be the Basic Stamp Chips (the large ones that appear to be on removable mountings, I can’t remember what they look like exactly from last years control box), there are only two. Someone want to tell me what I’m missing here?
I don’t know for sure about the 2SX chips, but a standard Basic Stamp is actually quite small(from seeing the one that we had in our sound controller), so I’m guessing those large chips on the board are something else…