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Title: USB Power
Post by: clerick on June 19, 2007, 01:48:37 AM

One of the kids got ahold of my trackIR clip with the LED's on it and puled it out of the plug :mad: :cry :furious ...  I was thinking that since it only needs power and there is no data transfer that i could sacrafice one of the many USB cables i have laying around and patch it up.  Anyone know how to do it?

Title: USB Power
Post by: Kermit de frog on June 19, 2007, 03:49:03 AM

Are you speaking of the TIR 4?

It plugs into the USB port for power and to send info to the computer.

I believe the outer pins are ground and +5V while the two center pins are tx/rx for data.

Good luck with your project.

Title: USB Power
Post by: clerick on June 19, 2007, 05:12:38 AM

Thanks for the reply, i was talking about the track clip, i sacraficed a USB cable i had and soldered the red to red and black to black and problem solved!