Just a guess, I don't have a boe-bot, but it could be that a newer Accesory/add-on to the boe-bot required some extra clearance, and parallax decided that it would be easier to just provide the larger stand-offs in the boe-bot kit than to provide short ones with the boe-bot and additional large ones with the add-on.
Actually, the standoffs are taller so that it will support the encoder kit and this helps simplify the kits so we don't have to go back and forth with the standoffs.· Here is a link for the encoder kit: http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=28107·.
Ben Damon said...
well i enjoy the lager stand offs to there full. I stuck a battery pack in there. lots of room, fits easily!
One drawback, Unless you're using rechargeable batteries, and you connect via the coaxial plug..
How do you get the batteries out?
YEOW!! Hotfoot!
I almost smoked my BOE!, Litterally! One of my other odd-ball hobbies, I knit Chain Maille..
(as in suits of armor.) A word of the wise, NEVER Let your BOE, or BOE-BOT land on top of
anything that conducts electricity! Next thing I know it, I smell something hot, saw smoke
coming from an overturned BOE-Bot, which was sitting on top of a recent hauberk (maille shirt)
I made.. Apparently, the 9V connectors shorted against some of the rings, and the result,
I cooked the negative spring in the battery pack. it melted the plastic, and pushed out, against the frame.
Damage cost: $1.69 WHEW! thankfully, RadioSlack had a replacement holder, and the wire
& coaxial connector survived. (yes, that >>IS<< an "L", in sLack.. long story..)
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The old ones were about half that.
This leaves a lot of space between the bottom of the Board of Education and the
top of the chassis.
All that is in there are the power cable from the batteries and two cables for the servos.
Still not clear why the change from 1/2 to 1".
Does any one know why this was changed?
Thanks,
Lawrence
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Dave
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This was the answer I was looking for.
The encoder looks like a useful product.
Thanks,
Lawrence
One drawback, Unless you're using rechargeable batteries, and you connect via the coaxial plug..
How do you get the batteries out?
I almost smoked my BOE!, Litterally! One of my other odd-ball hobbies, I knit Chain Maille..
(as in suits of armor.) A word of the wise, NEVER Let your BOE, or BOE-BOT land on top of
anything that conducts electricity! Next thing I know it, I smell something hot, saw smoke
coming from an overturned BOE-Bot, which was sitting on top of a recent hauberk (maille shirt)
I made.. Apparently, the 9V connectors shorted against some of the rings, and the result,
I cooked the negative spring in the battery pack. it melted the plastic, and pushed out, against the frame.
Damage cost: $1.69 WHEW! thankfully, RadioSlack had a replacement holder, and the wire
& coaxial connector survived. (yes, that >>IS<< an "L", in sLack.. long story..)
Stephen (gelfling6)