| | Vector 2x Compass??
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Is this the product's name? I am looking for buying a compass to hook up to the HB and I have seen this name many times on the list, but I don't recall seeing where I can find them... THanks in advance for any help, Yoni Garbourg << To succeed, (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: PCB for Handy Board
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Hi Don, I believe I have seen a pointer to a vendor that sells PCB for HBs from handy board web page under getting a hand on a HB. -Pandit ---...--- (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Trinity Firefighting contest info needed...
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At the Trinity Firefighting contest, what seemed to be the best method for detecting the flame? I am planning on entering next year and I am starting to get my design together. was thinking of using a phototransistor with a filter over it so that it (...) (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | GPS Sample Code
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Here is code I have used to talk between a GPS and a HandyBoard. I clipped these routines out of an old version of the code I currently use, so I can't verify that there aren't any bugs in this stuff, but it is simple code. Several people on the (...) (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Trinity College and Peace Dale Robotic Park photo's on-line
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Greetings all, We took a bunch of photographs at the April 1997 Trinity College Fire-Fighting Robot Contest and Rhode Island School of the Future Robotics Park Exhibition (whew!). The pictures are now on-line at (URL) not organized yet, except into (...) (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | PCB for Handy Board
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Hi all. I'm interested in building a handy board but I haven't seen anything on how to get the PCB. Would it be easier to order a kit with all the parts or should I buy all the parts on the parts list and buy the PCB seperately? Any suggestions (...) (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: problem in Program
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(...) Oops... Thank you Tom. Terry King. Terry.King@fmr.com (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Problem in program
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K> to running the printf right after "while (digital (15))". Try K> this: K> while (digital (15)) K> bk(2); K> printf ("Left object detected\n"); I think you want this to read: while (digital (15)) { bk(2); printf ("Left object detected\n"); } K> (...) (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Problem in program
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(...) Terry, Don't feel bad, I'm in the same boat on writing that code. But, thanks to everyone's help, I've been learning. Chris Hackett and Pandit Panburana had a good tip on fixing the problem with getting the printf message to LCD consistently. (...) (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | The HB is alive!
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Hooray, my HandyBoard works! My kit from DMSC came in on Friday, and I (a very non-hardware guy) managed to assemble it, thanks to Fred Martin's handy assembly guide. I did run into trouble during step 4.4.2 and 4.4.3 (testing/debugging 'serial line (...) (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Vector 2x almost working...
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(...) J> Heres the latest: I am having problems interfacing the Vector 2x J> electronic compass with the Handy Board. I have successfully J> loaded Tom Brusehaver's program and it does write to the HB LCD J> but the compass position always reads 0. (...) (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Accessing 2nd line of display
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(...) I think I read somewhere that the display is treated as one 32 character line instead of two 16 character lines. (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Vector 2x almost working...
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Thanks to everyone's responses on the first question I posted last week. I almost have it working. :) Heres the latest: I am having problems interfacing the Vector 2x electronic compass with the Handy Board. I have successfully loaded Tom (...) (27 years ago, 12-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Board Synchronization Error
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Hello all, I am using Interactive C version 3.1 from Newton Research Labs running under Win95. When I try to download code to my HB I will often get the following error: C> load C:\HandyBoard\Intera...bs\hello.c Loading (...) (27 years ago, 11-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Vector 2x Problems...
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(...) see the ICB linefeed caveat in the FAQ (URL) -fred (27 years ago, 9-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Looking to purchase Used Handy board
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Anybody have a working handy board for sale? I am interested in getting my kids involved and would to keep the costs down. If price is right, including manuals, etc I would mail a check to you. Larry Washburn (Live in Maryland) (27 years ago, 9-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Vector 2x Problems...
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I am having trouble using the Vector 2x Compass with my handyboard. I have the compass.asm file and the compass.icb file. I loaded the compass.icb file into the lib_hb.lis file so it would load automatically with IC. When I loaded IC, it said the (...) (27 years ago, 9-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Unsubscribe
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UNSUBSCRIBE Thank very much. Ben (27 years ago, 8-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Accessing 2nd line of display
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I *think* rather than /n if you type /m it should be in the second line....I don't remember which letter it is, nor do I have the robotics books near me. Or you can have however many spaces as there are (10? 15?) cursor blanks and leave off the \n (...) (27 years ago, 8-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: RF transmitters
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(...) A simple way to get rid of the DC component is to run the data through a scrambler on the TX side, and descrambler on the RX side. This has been done successfully in 9600 baud amateur radio TNC's. 2 or 3 chips on each end of the link is all it (...) (27 years ago, 8-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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