[Robotgroup] Basic Stamp II Repaired

[Paul Atkinson]

As long as the missing pins aren't embedded in your thumb, it's ok. I've
done that a few times. I'll bring the BS2 back on Thursday.

Paul

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:00 PM, LHudson <lhudson73 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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