Hi Guys,
What is the difference between the Lynxmotion Mini Atom Bot Board and the Bot Board II?
Thanks,
George
The Bot Board II has some simple but important changes compared to the original Mini Atom Bot Board design.
The Playstation 2 (PS2) Game Controller Port on the Mini ABB was dedicated to Basic Stamp II (BS2) use.
The port had a built-in inverter on the Data line which was required by the BS2.
Because the inverter is not required by the Basic Atom processors, and the BS2 will not work with the newer 3rd party controllers anyway, we dropped the support for the BS2.
The PS2 port is now dedicated to the Basic Atom or Basic Atom Pro.The Mini ABB originally had the PS2 Port on pins 4, 5, 6, and 7. This worked great with the Basic Atom 28. However, when the Basic Atom Pro 28 came out, there was an issue with P6 and P7 being 3.3vdc I/O pins.
This prevented the PS2 controller from working with the Mini ABB when an Atom Pro was used. So we moved the port to Pins 12, 13, 14, and 15.We are also changing the default SSC-32 serial out pin from pin 15 to pin 8.Remember these points if you are changing older code.
Manuals to everything…
lynxmotion.com/s-4-electroni … .aspx#micr
Cool, that clarifys some stuff. Thanks 