[Robotgroup] Basic Stamp II Repaired

[LHudson]

Well, no... the three pins that were missing used to be three pins that were bent.  I tried to bend them back and they snapped off.
 
No seriously, I didn't fake any of it!!  My stupidity is real and genuine.

L. Scott Hudson
 
"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things we know we don't know. But, there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know." 
 
-- Donald Rumsfeld, describing the IBM "Rational Software" Platform

--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Paul Atkinson <pmatkinson at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Paul Atkinson <pmatkinson at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Basic Stamp II Repaired
To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 3:47 PM

So, did you fake the whole thing? ;-)

There were two pins that were bent and probably would not have gone into the
socket. That might have been part of the problem. I still don't quite
understand how 3 pins went missing. Did you use explosives to get it out of
the socket?

Paul

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM, LHudson <lhudson73 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That's awesome!  Now I can make my LUNA prototype for Java / Linux. 
Bonnie
> is convinced that I faked the whole thing just so I could buy another BS2.
>
> I am puzzled as to why fixing the pins made it work.  The pins only broke
> when I removed the stamp, after it stopped working to begin with.
>
> Incidentally, before we went on vacation last Christmas, she did her usual
> weird thing where she hides all of the computers, and last weekend, in the
> throes of her pregnancy-induced housecleaning, she found a laptop that had
> been missing since then.  So now I have an extra BS2 and an extra laptop
--
> two relatively expensive parts that I would have had to recquisition for
the
> LUNA model.  I thought that was funny and I wanted to share it.
>
>
> --- On Tue, 8/12/08, Paul Atkinson <pmatkinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Paul Atkinson <pmatkinson at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Robotgroup] Basic Stamp II Repaired
> To: lhudson73 at yahoo.com, "The Robot Group Mailing List" <
> robotgroup at puremagic.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 12:37 PM
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> I was able to solder some pins back on your BS2. I loaded a test program
> and
> it appears to be working!
>
> You will need to re-load your previous program for the robot to do
it's
> thing.
>
> Paul Atkinson
> Robot Group VP
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