S1 to S2, What would it take?
So, After both reading and posting in this thread, http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/145595-Which-parallax-bot-should-I-purchase
rather than hijacking the thread I started a new one to find out what exactly it would take to turn an S1 in to an S2? My 2 grandkids each have an S1. I have a QS board, a few Propeller chips, a Prop BOE and many other components. Is this a feasable idea or would disassembling an S1 "wreck" it?
rather than hijacking the thread I started a new one to find out what exactly it would take to turn an S1 in to an S2? My 2 grandkids each have an S1. I have a QS board, a few Propeller chips, a Prop BOE and many other components. Is this a feasable idea or would disassembling an S1 "wreck" it?
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I'd imagine it would not be too hard to use a Propeller with the components of a S1 to have a Propeller controlled robot, but to have the robot able to use the S2 software would require a lot of additional hardware. I just don't think such an undertaking would be practical.
If you look through the S2's schematic you'll see theirs a lot going on with the S2. An important feature of the S2 is its encoders and I doubt it would be easy to add encoders after the fact to the S1's motors (I'm not sure about this).