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1. please read the Appendix B documentation in (URL) explains this in more detail than the FAQ. 2. you must the even-numbered Yx signals for output latches. Since Y6 is taken (by the on-board latch for the motor drivers), you're left with Y0, Y2, (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help - Cannot download!
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try using DL.EXE (part of the Interactive C distribution) after following the serial port options directions given the FAQ (under downloading problems). fred In your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Vector V2x Compass
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Hello: I have a V2x compass and I was trying to hook it into my handyboard using Tom Brusehaver's .icb, .c and instructions as described in the contributed section. I have also grounded the M/S pin on the compass. The EOC pin is sent to the HB thru (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Analog Encoders
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Hi, when I compile fencdr0.asm, I get "xxxjunk.c"(68): Warning --- Value Truncated "xxxjunk.c"(70): Warning --- Value Truncated "xxxjunk.c"(68): Warning --- Value Truncated "xxxjunk.c"(70): Warning --- Value Truncated Does everyone else get this (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | >1A adapter?
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Hello folks, I am currently using the HB to control a robot tethered to a PC (via the serial/charger board), as I'm using genetic algorithms to evolve controllers. The robot pulls about an amp (with motors, servo, sonar etc.), and I'm running it off (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Multitasking (fwd)
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I duno... I fergot. Sorry. :( It was a long time ago (milage-wise). I didn't use that method of mutitaking anymore and I didn't save the old code. But, I don't think so, I can't imagine that would be my style. I would set a global variable from (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 16 digital outputs as Fred suggested
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Hi guys, I needed 16 digital outputs for my handyboard, so I put up a very simple expansion board the way Fred suggested in his handboard FAQ: I connected two more hc374 with their d-inputs to LCD-display's data bus (d0 - d7). Then I connected the (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Rere: Smooth PWM in IC 3.1?
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At 08:17 PM 4/11/98 -0600, I wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> Correction: You'll also need Julian's lib_hb.c to go with it. Again, rename your current version first so you don't overwrite it. Put the new one in the libs directory where the old one was, (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Smooth PWM in IC 3.1?
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(...) Yes, it is possible. It must be, 'cause I've been doing it. You simply need to download Julian's pcode_hb.s19 (rename your other one first) and put it in the IC31\libs directory (or whatever you call it). IC 3.1 ought to automatically load it (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: SPI?
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(...) this is correct... (...) but this is not. the Handy Board communicates with the desktop computer using the SCI: serial communications interface. The SPI is for high speed (up to 1 megabaud) sychronous (i.e., separate clock signal) transfer to (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: SPI?
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(...) What Hacker said, but also, there's a 2x4 female SPI header on the HB just above the power jack that allows you to hook up other serial devices to the HB (like other HB's, memory, etc.) It's shown in the HB Tech. Reference and there are (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Smooth PWM in IC 3.1?
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I apologize for asking a question I think I've seen answered, but I can't find it in the mail archives. Is it possible to use Julian Skidmore's smooth PWM routines with Newton Labs' commercial IC 3.1? Since they use a different version of pcode.s19 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Multitasking (fwd)
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Does your while loop have a break(); statement. I have an idea that this may be necessary in some situations. -----Original Message----- From: MAR ERICSON [SMTP:mar@cooper.edu] Sent: Monday, 6 April 1998 8:46 To: Handy Board mailing list Subject: (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: SPI?
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CLANCY, It is the Serial Periperal Interface Handles Serial Data transmission out/in the 68HC11. I.E.the Handy Board uses an SPI for downloading data from the Desktop machine. (...) Charles Hacker School of Engineering Griffith University - Gold (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: setting an output
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You mean SPI outputs? Yes, check the HB HP FAQ under something like... "...digital outputs...?" ---...--- ericson mar Master of Engineering Candidate Project: Mobile Robotics mar@cooper.edu (212)353-4356 Department of Mechanical Engineering The (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Does anybody know if it's possible to make a pin high and then leave it high until I send another command to make it low? or will I have to set up some sort of external bistable flip flop that will save the state? I assume I would have to use some (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Vector 2x and Polaroid Sonar
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Hi All, I currenty have the Sonar connected to my Handyboard and it is great. I am interested in purchasing the Vector compass. Has anyone got both working together, it seems they both use the same SPI ports or the same pin 2 on the motor chip. Any (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Help - Cannot download!
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I wonder if any of you have had this problem before, but when I try to download the pcode_hb.s19 to the handyboard, it seems to download okay....however, when I power-cycle the board, it still acts if I didn't download anything - LCD is blank, (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: dc motor blues
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yup, here's what's going on. the motor percent argument controls the POWER, not the speed. if the motor is essentially unloaded, it will run at nearly full speed even at a low power percentage. if you build a gear train that makes the motor do some (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | dc motor blues
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After driving all my robots with step motors, I finally decided to try driving one with DC motors. I got a couple of the lego gearmotors, and mounted them on my robot with belts driving the wheels at a reduction ratio of about 1.5:1, and have been (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Vector 2x and Polaroid sonar source
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(...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | CONFIG reg of "E2"
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Hi to all ! Last week, I sent a interesting text of a motorola application (found at (URL) concerning the problem with the CONFIG reg of the 68HC811E2, unfortunately, there is no reaction til today. This application says, that the CONFIG of the "E2" (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Sat, May 2: Robotic Park kids exhibition / robot show
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Hi all, Anyone in the southern New England area will be interested in the Rhode Island School of the Future's annual "Robotic Park" exhibition of kids' robotic creations, to be held Saturday, May 2, 1998 at the Peace Dale Elementary School in (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | yacc stack overflow
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What exactly is a yacc stack overflow? I wrote somemore code to my nifty lil program involving adding more else if statements and it wont let me compile. Does anyone know what a yacc stack over flow is? How do I fix this so it will compile my (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: LMD18200
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CRAPOLA! NEVERMIND! I was wrong and thinking of the bridged version (the one I use here. . .) SORRY, MY BAD. Each socket on the handyboard will control 1 (ONE, UNO, UN. . .) Wirz _non-bridged_ 18200 board. Since the non-bridged version can control 2 (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: LMD18200
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With the non-bridged board, each socket will control 2 boards. So for board 1, you'll connect to pins 1 and 2 in the socket, and for board 2 connect to pins 9 and 10. The other pins you can do as you please (for the brake, current sense, and thermal (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: LMD18200
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I think I am a little confused by the wording of this. I am using the non-bridged board, so 1 socket on the HB controls how many boards? Thanks for all your help. Really appreciate it! Mike ---...--- <excerpt><fontfamily...param>YES. Take the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: LMD18200
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Oh yeah, just use the regular motor IC routines. Plug and play! -=Scott Date sent: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:14:36 -0700 To: handyboard@media.mit.edu From: "Michael S. Reiling" <macman@inreach.com> Subject: LMD18200 (...) (26 years ago, 8-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: LMD18200
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<FontFamily><param>Courier New</param>We've used the Wirz boards with great success here at Washington University. I can answer both of your questions at once, since they're the same thing. YES. Take the drivers off the handyboard, because now the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | LMD18200
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I just bought the motor driver kit from wirz electronics, and I have finished putting it all together. My question is, do I take the motor drivers off of the HB and put them on the wirz board, or do I leave them on the HB. Question 2: Assuming I (...) (26 years ago, 8-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Board Simulator
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Hi All, In the 3.1beta of the Mac version of IC was a board simulator. Is this still supported in the release version for the Mac? Will there be a port to the PC platforms? I find the simulator very helpful in a lot of situations. But since I do my (...) (26 years ago, 8-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: SPI ram
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Anthony, A easier way to get 8K of EEPROM memory is to use Microchip Technology 25C640 Serial SPI EEPROM Memory. This is a 8 pin DIP device with a built in SPI interface. Cost is about $3 each. I wrote a simple application note to connect to a HB (...) (26 years ago, 8-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | SPI ram
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If anyone cares, I have posted my SPI ram card design to the web at (URL) is probably laughable, but I thought it was a good effort for not knowing too much about electronics. Anthony Oren Loeppert *** (URL) * o* * ***> * * * * * | | * * | / * * |/ (...) (26 years ago, 8-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hey! We've built a play pen for our robot and plan on showing it to everyone who wanders past our display at the Adventures in Super Computing expo on the 22nd. It will be vooming around the box preferably from like 7:30 to 9. My problem is that our (...) (26 years ago, 8-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Radio communication page
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Thanks for all the (mostly personal) replies to my message. I'll put a page up on the radio communication between the Handy Board and a PC. At the end of the week there will be a first version up and running. It will be accessible from (URL) Sipke (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: servos
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Generally, you can get cheaper servos from just about anywhere else than Tower hobbies. The cheapest, but good enough, is Hitec or Cirrus. Tower's Hitec price is not good. Cirrus line(Hobby Shack's line) is cheaper than Hitec. Check (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: servos
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(...) >Im looking to find 6 servos. >thanks alot! >phil >phil@rent-a-nerd.com >www.rent-a-nerd.com >> Phil, Try Tower Hobbies (800) 637-4989 PO BOX 9078, Champaign, IIinois 61826 or Tammies Hobbies (800) 521-5614 12024 SW Canyon Rd., Beaverton OR (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | servos
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Does anyone know of a good place to get good servos for cheap? Im looking to find 6 servos. thanks alot! phil phil@rent-a-nerd.com www.rent-a-nerd.com (26 years ago, 7-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | help with sonar
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I emailed fred martin directly and he told me to respond to this address. Fred: does the sonar click indicating transmit? pls. follow up to the HB mail list. My response: yes, the sonar does click. I have also connectd it to a scope and both the (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Machine code PRINT routine
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Hello All, I have been able to get a machine code print routine to work. The code that will print two lines to the LCD screen follows. Fred Martin had requested I send the code to the HandyBoard list. Note that No interrupts have been set up. The (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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