Did I get the wrong booklet with my boebot?

insertdisplaynamehere

hello, my boebot arrived about an hour ago and I had started to put it together when I realised that my Board of education is a Rev D but my instruction booklet·only supports Revs A, B and C.... so was I sent the wrong instruction book?
Because some parts in here I dont have and my board looks different than the pictures

(Strip of four rubber feet) did not come in my box but it says I should have it



please help, thank you [noparse]:)[/noparse]

sobaman14

The same thing happened to me! I used the Rev C model in the book, and it works great! 'The strip of four runner feet' is for the Board of Education, they are small little feet for when the BOE is not mounted on the chassis. When you mount the BOE on the chassis, they aren't really useful I think, but I'm not sure. I never found any use for the feet except when the BOE wasn't mounted on the chassis.

insertdisplaynamehere

Hmm well I have another problem, when I connect it to my computer and run the BASIC stamp editor, I click Identify but it doesnt show up and though when I press refresh I see a light go off on the board...but it its connected correctly

Andy Lindsay (Parallax)

sobaman,

Yeah, the rubber feet are just for keeping the metal joints on the underside of the board from touching the table the board is sitting on. Especially if the work surface is a metal table (not recommended for electronics experiments), it would probably damage the BASIC Stamp, and maybe the board of education too. The rubber feet prevent that.

insertdisplaynamehere,

Robotics with the Boe-Bot v2.2 is the instruction set you should be working with. Pay careful attention to the Board of Education Rev C descriptions on pages 13 - 27. Common culprits include:

- Rechargeable batteries (only use with the BOEBoost board)
- Dead alkaline batteries
- BASIC Stamp inserted upside-down (Examine the orientation of the BASIC Stamp in Figure 1-24.)

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Andy Lindsay

Education Department
Parallax, Inc.