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To hold and mount these batteries, you can purchase a holder with 
LEGO mounts as shown here from the 

mindsensors.com

 website.

Rechargeable battery Pack 
designed for PiStorms. 

This  

battery pack comes with a 
charging adapter.

You can order it here: 

http://www.mindsensors.com/products/174-rechargeable-
battery-pack

8.4 V Li-Ion battery or 
9.6Volts Ni-CD or Ni-
MH RC rechargeable 
battery.
You can buy such 
battery and it’s charger 
in local toy store.

Mounting PiStorms on your contraption

The PiStorms fits directly on to the GPIO 
header pins of the Raspberry Pi. The 
PiStorms Frame allows users to connect 
LEGO parts. The PiStorms Frame has holes 
that are compatible with LEGO mindstorms 
products. 

PiStorms Frame Assembly Instructions

Architecture Highlights 

PiStorms has two banks for motor and sensor ports (Bank-A 
and Bank-B).  Each bank has its own I2C address. Each bank 
has two EV3 motor ports and 2 sensor ports. (Total 4 motors 
and 4 sensor ports. You can also connect NXT motors in the 
motor ports and supported NXT Sensors in the sensor ports).

PiStorms has one button/switch. The button must be pressed 
once upon start up to establish connection to the Raspberry 
Pi. You can also shutdown the Raspberry Pi by holding the 
button for approximately 10 seconds.

PiStorms is equipped with a 2.4 inch LCD touchscreen.

PiStorms has 1 LED (located in the corner of bank A for newer 
models and bank B for older models) that when programming, 
can be accessed from either bank. 

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Страница 1: ...rectly inserted into the PiStorms Doing so may result in permanent damage to the Raspberry Pi The PiStorms has green terminals to connect an external battery this battery will also supply power to attached Raspberry Pi You do not need to power the Raspberry Pi with a different power source however supplying external power to Raspberry Pi such as through USB is also ok NOTE Nominal PiStorms Power r...

Страница 2: ...are compatible with LEGO mindstorms products PiStorms Frame Assembly Instructions Architecture Highlights PiStorms has two banks for motor and sensor ports Bank A and Bank B Each bank has its own I2C address Each bank has two EV3 motor ports and 2 sensor ports Total 4 motors and 4 sensor ports You can also connect NXT motors in the motor ports and supported NXT Sensors in the sensor ports PiStorms...

Страница 3: ...last set encoder position Turning motor by degrees Move it in forward or reverse direction Turning motor by rotations 360 degrees makes one rotation Running operations asynchronously While a motor is running other operations may be performed Running motors for unlimited duration While motors are running you can also perform other operations NOTE When motors are set to run for Unlimited Duration th...

Страница 4: ...ee different forms 1 Pre configured image ready for use operating system image 2 Manual installation when you already have data on your SD card 3 Developer Installation for advanced users that wish to modify and share PiStorms software GitHub PiStorms software will run on a standard Raspbian Operating system Jessie Download the pre configured PiStorms image at http www mindsensors com largefiles p...

Страница 5: ...ake a note of the filename Login to your Pi and issue command cd home pi wget http www mindsensors com largefiles updater fileName use the fileName as you noted above This will download the latest release on your Pi unzip the release file and install as follows cd home pi tar zxvf fileName cd home pi PiStorms setup chmod x setup sh setup sh It will take a few minutes to install the software PiStor...

Страница 6: ... Scratch Reference The PiStorms Scratch Interface Reference Guide can be found at the following address http www mindsensors com pdfs PiStorms 20 20ScratchProgrammingGuide pdf Copyright 2016 mindsensors com 6 6 ...

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