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| Dear all, The design for the Handy Board Expansion Board is done, and I am now sponsoring a limited beta-test program. I know that many of you have been waiting a long time for the board, and I will be asking most of you to wait a little longer as (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Handyboard/RWP without p-code
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| Hi All, I would like to use the Rug Warrior board (similar configuration as the Handyboard) with conventional tools - assembler, C compiler, monitor. No Interactive C or p-code, and I am prepared to run the board in bootstral/expanded modes without (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jul-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Windows NT experiences?
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| Hi all, I was wondering if people would please "share" their experiences running Interactive C on Windows NT. Is anyone using the old freeware DOS IC on NT? Did you have any trouble getting it to work? Please send to the list, or me privately if (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | data acquisition
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| this message is especially for Fred Martin: is there any way to retrieve a large integer array (1000 or so elements) from the handyboards memory, and save it in a file on the PC? thank you. Justin D. Gullotta.. , Engineer, Rensselaer Polytechnic (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jul-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: LCD Removal
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| it's easy: just use the replacement pcode_hb.s19 file provided by Kent Farnsworth: (URL) your message you said: (...) and still have the HB work. My design does not require the LCD, so if i could r emove it my robot would then be a little more (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | DC motors vs. servo motors
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| The nature of the PWM (pulse width modulation) is entirely different for servo's vs. plain DC motors. For a DC motor, it has a two wire connection. All drive power is supplied over these two wires -- think of a light bulb. When you turn on a DC (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Infrared Optosensors
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| 1/2" is actually pretty good range for a basic reflectance sensor. try using them in the analog inputs -- you should get readings that let you read out to about 1". to get better than that, you need a modulated signal, like Pandit has described. (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: download problems
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| The motor state is insignificant before the board has booted. I.e., the fact the motors are on the red direction means nothing; it's just the random state of the motor output latch when the board turns on without a program. The LCD screen should not (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | is IC compatible with the MC68HC11F1
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| hi from France, I already have a handy-board running with a 11A1 chip and I plan to adapt the circuit for a 11F1 chip, with the same memory map. Does someone have any experience about running IC with this chip? Will it work with the pcode_hb.s19 (...) (26 years ago, 21-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: hbtest.c errors
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| (...) ... (...) your Interactive C is not loading the correct libraries. Make sure IC is configured to load lib_hb.lis, NOT lib_r22.lis. Get the latest lib_hb.c, lib_hb.lis, and lib_hb.icb from the Software resources area of the HB web site. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | micrcontroller speeds
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| This question has nothing to do with the Handy Board although it is a general question which I need some help with. Previous students at the school I attend left behind a robot which they worked on. The microcontroller was Intel's 80C196. The (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | assembler question
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| does anyone know if a piece of assembler code can call in C functions? i would imagine that it would be done using a "JSR" instruction. this message goes out especially to Fred Martin. thanks in advance. Justin D. Gullotta.. , Engineer, Rensselaer (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: serial port
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| I use the handyboard in the same way, and i need to say you, if you use dos can get more avaibility for the serial port, what under a seudo multitasking enviroment like windows 95. Otherwise, i use windows 95 because i need the GUI interface to sell (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE
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| Greetings, This is the periodic friendly reminder that in order to unsubscribe, you must send an email to fredm@media.mit.edu asking thusly. Again, the method for unsubscribing is: 1. write an email saying "please unsubscribe me"; 2. send it to (...) (26 years ago, 24-May-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | can't download to save my life
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| Please help!! I can't get the pcode_hb.s19 file into the handyboard to save my life. Upon looking through the archives, I've noticed some traffic that looks like it directly relates to my problem. However, I couldn't find a definitive solution. So (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB Memory...
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| This is what Fred Martin wrote in a earlier message to this mail list. This is the approximate breakdown of the HB memory space. User program object code + user global variables: 16320 bytes available Runtime pcode OS: 7936 bytes Used stack space (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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