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| | Re: dc motor output control? Please help!
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| the short answer is that you can't use 3v motors with the handy board. the FAQ states this: (URL) you use the "separate motor power supply" hack, with a 6v battery, you might be able to get 3v motors to work. see (URL) your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 25-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Do we have linkage?
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| I got it. (...) snip . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . . _ . _ . Fred Yokel email: fred@drbmar.com DRB Partners 2635 North First Street, Suite 204 San Jose, CA 95134 (408) 943-0515 . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Readings
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| Fred- You left it unclear in an explanation to another letter. You were answering the fellow from India as to what readings one should see when useing a logic probe on the memory chip. You said that if one was stuck at 1 or zero-it might be (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: AC Adapter Specs?
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| I had posed this question to Fred Martin at MIT who was involved in the designing of the Programmable Brick/RCX and this was his response; (...) This is by no means an official response from The Lego Group. Pete (...) -- Did you check the web site (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | CONTINUOUS BEEPING
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| Dear Fred Martin/friends, We have put a total of 6 chips on the handy board-the 6811 ,two chips placed side by side to the left of the 6811, the fat chip on the upper side of the 6811, two ICs(chips) one on each side of the fat chip.(component side) (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Serial LCD on PA4?
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| I am trying to send serial data to a 2-Line LCD which is connected to Scott Edwards' 9600baud backpack. I have PA4 available. I came across Fred Martin's 'Pa7_9600' serial files which included Pa7_9600.asm and Pa7_9600.icb and am wondering if they (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Danger Will Robinson!
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| Warning. The following is a hazard to your pocketbook! I just went by WalMart (Milpitas) on the way back from lunch and saw a display of Wild West. I've always wanted to get a bunch of Cavalry Minifigs and Covered wagons so I stopped to check the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | ROVER
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| Dear Mr Fred Martin/friends, We have run into some strange problems.Whenever we download the pcode_hb.s19 to the handy board using dl.exe we first get it is loading bootstrap program then the pcode.It shows the loading by a series of dots and (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| fred (score: 0.126) |
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| | Interactive C-OS8 Downloading Problems
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| I have nearly teared my hair out trying to get my HB to to DL on a my OS8 6500 Mac. I though there might be someting wrong with the HB and replaced 5 chips. Today I took my HB over to a friends house who has a Performa 475 and hand had no problems. (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC
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| Dear Mr Fred Martin/friends, Thank you for giving the site of the new library files.We started IC properly today.It gave NO 'synchronizing with board' errors. We input 1 + 2; and it gave the proper result.However when 123 * 2; was entered at the C> (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC PROBLEM
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| Dear Mr Fred Martin/Friends, I had written to the handy board mailing list about a rover that we are making at VESIT-Bombay-India.We were encountering some problems in starting IC,it was saying 'Synchronizing with board' and hanging. I had received (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | (no subject)
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| Dear Mr Fred Martin/friends, The handy board assembly manual speaks of a custom testing software needed to test memory. I want it urgently to test memory ICs used on the handy board to find whether they is working properly. If you know where it can (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: SRAM and orLCD problem
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| eric, i don't have a definitive answer, but here are two things: 1. You *NEED* the reset chip, whether it's a DS1233 or the MC34064HC, I don't care, but you must have a device that asserts reset (pulls the line low) when the system voltage falls (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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| (...) Agent has instructions for installing multiple instances... look under "How to Configure Agent for Multiple Users and Servers". I use three copies of Agent: one for Usenet, one for Lugnet, and one for Furnet. You have to move some files around (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: OFF TOPIC!!!
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| (...) Fred, It appears that Chris did read the warning, but unfortunately he ignored it (or maybe he misunderstood it) as you no doubt saw a few minutes later. In any case, in order to prevent his further disrupting things here, his posting (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.admin.general)
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