New Technic Motors

[doug72]

New Technic Motors.

Will the new L motor 88013 & XL motor 88014 work with EV3 and are the cable connectors compatible ?

If not would a converter cable work ?

Edited June 1, 2020 by Doug72

[Lok24]

Both motors are Powerd Up motors, so they work will all the powered Up Hubs (there are 4 of them).

Not compatible, and as the EV3 Set will vanish this summer there won't be a cable (they are elctrically completly different)

Edited June 1, 2020 by Lok24

[doug72]

2 hours ago, Lok24 said:

Both motors are Powerd Up motors, so they work will all the powered Up Hubs (there are 4 of them).

Not compatible, and as the EV3 Set will vanish this summer there won't be a cable (they are elctrically completly different)

Thanks as I expected.

Too many different control systems on Lego now,

[GrandiJoos]

35 minutes ago, Doug72 said:

Thanks as I expected.

Too many different control systems on Lego now,

I too find it unfortunate, but on the other hand I feel LEGO is moving towards 1 control system 'to rule them all'... Let's see if they manage to stick to this one for a while :)

[dr_spock]

I think it could be possible.  Pins 1-4 appears similar in both system.  Not sure about pins 5 & 6 functions. You may need hardware to translate between EV3 I2C and PU serial data if you want to read the encoders in those PU motors.  Also you'll need to code the EV3 to work with the PU motors.

 

 

[Tcm0]

1 hour ago, dr_spock said:

I think it could be possible.  Pins 1-4 appears similar in both system.  Not sure about pins 5 & 6 functions. You may need hardware to translate between EV3 I2C and PU serial data if you want to read the encoders in those PU motors.  Also you'll need to code the EV3 to work with the PU motors.

 

 

The EV3 sensors use UART, too. I2C is mainly for NXT backwards compatibility.

[Lok24]

But as the new mindstorms is being released in August I don't see any use of connecting the two Systems together.

17 hours ago, Doug72 said:

Too many different control systems on Lego now,

Too many? Just one in new sets.

[dr_spock]

 

22 hours ago, Tcm0 said:

The EV3 sensors use UART, too. I2C is mainly for NXT backwards compatibility.

Cool.  Would you know if its UART is compatible with the PU devices?  Can the EV3 micropython iodevices module be used?  https://pybricks.github.io/ev3-micropython/iodevices.html#

 

[Tcm0]

14 hours ago, dr_spock said:

 

Cool.  Would you know if its UART is compatible with the PU devices?  Can the EV3 micropython iodevices module be used?  https://pybricks.github.io/ev3-micropython/iodevices.html#

 

I don't know if they use the same protocol