However, the manufacturer provides mechanisms to allow the user to connect modules in different orders.
They are not taught programming as such, but learn to connect pre-constructed modules in such a way as to design effective programs.
The expansion module included a parallel printer port and two hardware based serial ports and an expansion bus to connect further modules such as the 8 and 16 way serial modules under development.
Copper solar cables connect modules (module cable), arrays (array cable), and sub-fields.
It is designed to connect modules of the future OPSEK space station.
ESA has contributed a further two nodes (Harmony & Tranquility) which connect modules of the station and had docking ports for visiting ships.
Computer buses or electrical buses connect the processor and modules through multiplexer or demultiplexers.
Simple one-line commands connect modules and instantaneously process data and calculation impacts across the model.
Originally to be launched on 19 February 2004 to the International Space Station to conduct assembly mission ISS-10A, delivering the second of three station connecting modules, Harmony.
The two remaining station connecting modules, or nodes, were built in Italy by Alenia Aerospazio, as part of an agreement between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).