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| after you download the S19 code, does your C program in the HB go away? i.e., whether or not you hold down start, your HB boots up with the IC message on the LCD? If NOT, then your downloader isn't communicating with your board either. Did your (...) (27 years ago, 11-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | MIT Cricket IR Communications
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| I have been reading the information about the MIT Crickets on the MIT website and was wondering if Fred is able to provide any information on how this is performed. I realise from the web pages that some of the information is confidential and (...) (27 years ago, 30-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Hardware or software??
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| (...) This is normal. Here is an excerpt from the testing notes: The Handy Board will display the message ``Press START to test knob...'' on its LCD screen. Press the START button, and the screen will show the message ``Turn knob; STOP to end -> (...) (27 years ago, 1-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Board synch problem
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| Fred et.al.: Success! DLM, DL, and the others just wouldn't work for any of my hardware, but a colleague wrote a shareware application ( LOADHC11.EXE ) expressly to load bootstrap 256 byte loader program into page zero of internal RAM , including (...) (27 years ago, 20-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: hbtest errors
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| John ( and everyone else ) ( Shameless Newbie Introduction follows...) I've just joined this list, and have barely finished constructing my first two handy-boards v1.2. Kudo's to Fred on a fine product. John... yours is the first message I've seen (...) (27 years ago, 19-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: PORTD WOM Control Bit
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| (...) yes it is normal to receive errors when posting to the list. here is an excerpt from the 'welcome msg' i send everyone when joining the list: 5. When you send to the list, YOU WILL GET BOUNCES. This is normal, there are always some bad (...) (27 years ago, 24-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: DC adapter
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| a regulated supply would be really nasty when you put the interface board in ZAP mode -- the supply would try to raise the level of the battery to 15v or whatever, and that would be bad. so unless you really know what you are doing, steer clear of (...) (27 years ago, 5-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: DC adapter
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| Good question. Answer: DO NOT USE REGULATED ADAPTERS WITH THE HANDY BOARD. I will add this to the FAQ, because it is not obvious, but the HB power circuitry was designed explicitly for CHEAPO UNREGULATED WALL WARTS ONLY. sorry, Fred In your message (...) (27 years ago, 4-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB IR transmit circuitry problem
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| what value are you using for the R4 resistor? There was an incorrect value in some of the Handy Board documentation and it might not be fully expunged. Also, are you using a polypropylene capacitor for C6. -Fred -- This message was composed using (...) (27 years ago, 3-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC version 3.1
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| (...) Yes, the freeware MS-DOS/Windows tools have been known to have problems on some new/fast PCs. It all has to do with old serial drivers. Newton Labs stands behind the commercial product. I recommend that you try it. -Fred -- This message was (...) (27 years ago, 29-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help!!!! Handy Board Problem
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| I am going to guess this is a software problem on the PC side. If you can boot your computer in DOS mode, try running IC then. Or find an older box :-(. Freeware DOS IC is known to have serial line comms bugs with some fast machines. NT can't be (...) (27 years ago, 27-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: free memory
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| I don't remember exactly, but the memory map for IC is something like: pcode itself: 8K used user compiled code + global program data: 16K available user process stacks and runtime locals: 8K available ---...--- 32K total memory this is ball park. (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: DIP switches
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| you can use dip switches in the standard digital in ports if you either (a) solder them to male header first, or (b) insert them in a wire-wrap socket and then insert the wire-wrap socket pins into the HB sensor ports. both of these methods get (...) (27 years ago, 24-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | compile ICB files under Windows
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| Hi all, it turns out that the answer for doing this has been available for two years (!) Kent Farnsworth put together a set of GNU compiler tools, Randy's modified AS11 assembler, and a DOS version of the "as11_ic" Unix shell script, all working for (...) (27 years ago, 21-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Lcd
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| (...) there are 3 kinds of backlighting * LED * electro-luminescent (EL) * cold cathode florescent tube LED and EL are thin panels behind the LCD glass (tho they do add thickness to the final unit). florescent is miniature lamps that go along one or (...) (27 years ago, 18-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Help Error during assembling the HB
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| Hello, I am assembling a Handy Board with Gred G. Martins Assembling instructions. But after step 6 the download of the file pcode_hb.s19 produces the following error: 'DLM: 6811 File Downloader with Intelligent EEPROM burn by Fred 'Martin portions (...) (27 years ago, 8-Sep-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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