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| Dear Mr Fred Martin, Thank you for your reply. We have used all HC chips in the handyboard. Yours sincerely, Nitin (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Fred- I'm the one with the HB that always worked with System 7 Mac 11si-now decommisioned. On my OS 8.1 Mac 6500 with Appletalk turned off, useing printer port-I used to be able to use IC253 cosole if the P-code was already Downloaded elsewhere. (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) Are there no bitwise operators? The scheme you described would be much easier to implement [and a damn sight faster] using a bitwise and operator [& in C]. Like the concept though... Hoping to get Mindstorms for Christmas when I will turn the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Fred Martin's paper mentions the URL at the end: (URL) summarize it: basically this is still a work in progress and they hope to have a public version "sometime during 1999." Jonathan (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Dear Mr Fred Martin, I hope you remember that we in India were making a rover ,which in the end ran into some problems.We had to present the inoperational rover only for the exhibition. Now,after the exhibition we are trying to make the rover work. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Fred- Thank you for the new version DLoader MCL. I can now indeed load the P- code. Useing this Mac 6500 Apple talk off-printer port-I am still finding odd things-very odd things. A week back-I replaced the hex inverter, memory chip, & U6. Now-after (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Announcing the Handy Board Expansion Board
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| Greetings everyone, It's the last day of 1998, so it's a good time to announce the official release of the Handy Board expansion board. The Handy Board Expansion Board is officially released! The Expansion Board plugs on top of the Handy Board, and (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Dear Mr Fred Martin/Friends, I have been playing with the handyboard for a while now, currently I have four handyboards. I'm working on the communication module between the handyboards using the infrared emitter and the Sharp IS1U60 infrared (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Everyone and Fred, Just to let everyone know, Motorola is currently doing an "End of Life" buy on the 68HC11A family. I think the plan is that we will stop making them by the end of the year. We are moving all customers over to the 68HC11E family. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Fred- Per your suggestion because I am having trouble DLing to the HB to my HB thru my printer port with Apple talk off-I DLed ZTERM, set the baud rate to 300 and watched the green light blink every time I hit a key on the Mac. A few oddities- The (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) I finally got back to this ... had to go to the day job ... :) (...) ... and everything loads just fine now. Thanks Fred, for this and everything that you are doing. I'm just getting into this stuff but so far I am having a blast. -- Doug (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi! Amazing when I listened MY HandyBoard playing the Pink Panther theme!!! Again thank you very much to Fred and everybody who helped him, you really did a very great job! I was waiting for this moment for about three months! (...) I'm very glad (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) Agree with you totally there! However, I have always found it useful to have a debugging version of the kernel which allows you to use something like gdb to debug your embedded system through a serial port. (...) Sadly, the last embedded (...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) please download the latest 6811 Downloader for Macintosh, just posted last week on the HB web site. Fixes compatibility probs. (...) th the (...) OK, yes, you've already downloaed. (...) plus (...) please download these files from the HB web (...) (26 years ago, 27-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| phillip, please go through the sequence of tests in the assembly directions (as if you were building the serial/charger board from scratch), and indicate the point at which you first detect a problem. (URL) your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 26-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi! I'm extremely happy today, that I could start mounting my Hand Board. The reset chips arrived and now the only thing that's missing is the lcd, but it should arrive by next Monday. I've mounted the serial comm board and it worked ok, and I've (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Use 6811 Downloader to download pcode_hb.s19. Power cycle, and the Handy Board should beep and display a version message on its LCD screen. Then, run IC modem or IC printer depending on which port you are using. It should be configured to boot with (...) (26 years ago, 26-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Thanks Fred and you too Ranjit, I have just now got my board to accept the expansion board files. I reloaded the expansion board zip files,installed in ic but still would not load. It did not give a error message for the expsens.c file but did for (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Fred, I thought I found a minor mistake in the parts list for the expansion board. But I now believe I didn't. The artwork on the schematic sold by Douglas shows that RP1 is a 1Kx7 where as your schematic and parts list shows it to be a 1Kx4. Since (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Fred; Here is the copy of expsens,c---...--- At the lines in the hb was having problems with there was a small square figure at the starting point outside the comment*\ and\* for some reason. Any one else having a problem????? Thanks Terry ---...--- (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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