MSCcam Robot Lead Construction

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How to make up a lead for connecting an MSCcam embedded camera to a Miabot Pro BT robot.

For use with a Miabot Pro robot, the MSCcam is powered and communicates via the 16-way “Main Connector”. NOTE: however, the lead connecting the camera to the Miabot must have certain pins removed – pins 4,6,8 and 10 – otherwise the programming pins of the two processors are joined together. (The lead provided is already set up like this)

The connections go like this --

robot     (16-way pins)   camera
-----                     ------
   01  -----------------  01
   02  -----------------  02
   03  -----------------  03
   04 x                   04
   05  -----------------  05
   06 x                   06
   07  -----------------  07
   08 x                   08
   09  -----------------  09
   10 x                   10
   11  -----------------  11
   12  -----------------  12
   13  -----------------  13
   14  -----------------  14
   15  -----------------  15
   16  -----------------  16

Easiest way is to pull 4 pins out of a 16-way IDC plug before closing it onto the ribbon cable This just means that the connections 4/6/8/10 don't connect one end.

From the back of the robot-end plug, it looks like this ...

 (01)   <<  !               (<< = pin-1 mark)
 (02)          !
 (03)       !
 (04)          (*)
 (05)       !
 (06)          (*)
 (07)       !
 (08)          (*)
 (09)       !
 (10)          (*)
 (11)       !
 (12)          !
 (13)       !
 (14)          !
 (15)       !
 (16)          !

(*) == PULL THESE OUT WITH PLIERS

'Finally' -don't forget to label the 'Pro' end and 'MSCcam' end so they don't get confused (!)