Owner's manual

pin # COLOR SIGNAL NAME:
(left) 1) WHITE: signal ground
2) BLACK: - serial data out from Brick Brains
3) RED: + serial data out from Brick Brains
4) GREEN: - serial data in to Smart Brick Brains
5) YELLOW: + serial data in to Smart Brick Brains
(right) 6) BLUE: signal ground
To cross wire the RS-422 / RS-485 signals from the Smart Brick
System to the RS-232 serial port of an IBM compatible or Pioneer
LaserDisk (or DVD) player, cross connect the signals as follows:
IBM IBMPioneer LaserDisk (or DVD)
DB-25
DE-9 DB-15 SIGNAL SIGNAL FROM/TO Smart Brick
Brain
2 3 2 DATA OUT - Rx data in to Brick Brain (GREEN)
3 2 3 DATA IN - Tx data out from Brain (BLACK)
7 51, 11 or 15 GROUND signal ground (BLUE or WHITE)
Apple Macintosh computers have true RS-422 serial ports
built in. To connect to the Smart Brick System, the pin out is as fol-
lows for a Macintosh mini-DIN-8:
t
o + serial data in to card (#5 yellow)
to - serial data in to card (#4 green)
12
34 5
67 8
from - serial data out from card (#2 black)
from + serial data out from card (#3 red)
signal ground (#1 blue or #6 white)
The Smart Brick System expects to see the serial data in the
following format:
ONE START BIT
EIGHT DATA BITS
TWO STOP BITS
There are a number of methods which you can use to access
a number of Smart Brick Brains and Digital Audio Repeaters at
the same time. If you are controlling the animation and audio
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