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Connecting to a HiTechnic prototype board to an Arduino

Connecting to a HiTechnic prototype board to an Arduino. If you are thinking to yourself, “ Wouldn't it be fun to take a prototype board from Hitechnic and connect it to my Arduino? I wonder if it is possible...” Well I am here to tell you that Yes, indeed it is possible, it is not only possible it works rather nicely, of course - HiTechnic doesn’t really support this and the NXT documentation doesn’t have a section called “Cutting a cable in half to connect it your Arduino” so it took a little research to make it it happen which is why I thought I would share this information with the world. Step one - the cable  I took a cable from my mindstorms kit and chopped one end off, I then took some nice stiff jumper wires and soldered them onto the ends so I had something that I could plug into the Arduino.  Step two - What goes where.  So the big question was what pins to plug it into on the Arduino. I have an Uno which means that pins A4 and A5 are the i2c SDA and S