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| I recently bought a Handy Board which works fine, but my version of Interactive C wants to communicate with the board via COM1 only. The port I have available, without completely changing my computer setup, is COM3. How do you get IC to change ports (...) (27 years ago, 20-Jul-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Wall Following
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| (...) Correction: the problem has been the *bane* of your life--not the bain. I'm the bain of everyone's life. (...) The best solution to the problem that I've seen is in the 6.270 Robot Builder's Guide, which can be downloaded off of the documents (...) (27 years ago, 25-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Yeeee Haaaa! and Will this motor work?
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| Hi all, Yeeee Haaaw! I just got my HB in from Gleason Research Friday and started figuring it out this weekend. WOW! What a blast! It was worth eating peanut butter sandwiches for 3 months to save up for! ;-) This is EXACTLY what I've needed to get (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Servo motor with external power supply
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| Hi, I have tried to run a servo motor with an external power supply (4.8v).I have connected the ground lead of the servo to the motor ground port (Motor Power Jack) and the signal lead of the servo to digital 9.(Like descibed in Fred Martin's book: (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Sonar
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| The Robotics Practitioner is a magazine about robotics targeted more for students and hobbyists than many of the professional Journals. Their email address is: trp@footfalls.com. Other two email addresses in the previous messge are the articlel's (...) (28 years ago, 9-Apr-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Voltage for the DC motor
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| hi, I noticed that the picture of the HB in the Web page is slight different from mine. There is no thick trace on my HB to be cut. However, the HB in the web page has a thick trace on it ? My version of the board is 1995, Fred Martin. Please help. (...) (26 years ago, 31-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Stupid Sonars
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| I have a extremely complicated two polaroid sensor set up going on... I had a diode connected to each of the ECHO lines so that I can combine the two lines together... However, no signal passes through this setup... However, I have validified the (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Sensors & Parallel Port
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| Hi, I'm not sure if I recently had a day dream about interfacing sonars directly with the parallel port, or I actuallydid see a web resource containing such info... Has anyone here seen such resource, or had the same day trip ? Best, Andre Philippi. (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Fantasy group?
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| (...) I'm not sure what you mean by 'in the long run'... Just to clarify, adding a group called build.fiction would have the intent of attracting posters whose building may be inspired by: TRON, Blade Runner, Hello Kitty, Le Morte D'Arthur, Monty (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Motor Controller Question
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| From what I could figure out from the literature on the HB, the motor controller circuit is controlled by Port B on the 6811. With a little tinkerin last nite I was trying to set/reset some of the pins poking values into $1004 (Got this from "An (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 0x8000 and main()
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| Dan, Perhaps I'm misinterpreting what you mean by "a startup program". To me, a "startup program" means there is a file downloaded to the HB that contains a " main() " function, i.e., a function which will automatically be executed upon startup (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Target Lies and Great Buys!
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| (...) I've been finding the same thing here in the Pacific NW. Nothing stays on the shelves very long around here. I checked out 3 or 4 Targets and they only had a couple odds and ends at the 30% markdown left. I also did a couple TRU, Walmarts, (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems
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| YES ! Flowcharts ! It's the little routines full of variables passed in and passed out that need the most careful mapping on a large flat surface. Once you have it working you throw it away. Nobody wants to see it. It tends to be a personal thing. (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I got a defective part!
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| I got my first defective part a few weeks ago. It was a 12 or 16 stud beam with a little excess ABS on one side. Not very critical for me since I already had a bunch of the same piece. Not too bad. One defective part out of thousands. Fred. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | WTB: 6469 Space Port Value Packs MISB
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| Hello- I'm looking for a few (~ 4) 6469 Space Port Value Packs MISB. If you or any one you may know that would have these on offer, please contact me. This is a fairly new set, and may still be available in some stores (ie- TRU, Target, Fred Meyers, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: 4 HoverBikes waiting to join the circuit
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| You know, when Chris first put out the call, I thought, 'This is so Jamie's thing.' Must be the job you've done on smaller models like your rickshaw. Very pleased to have guessed right...such and eclectic collections of machines. Each one has such (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | dual servos
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| Good Day, A consensus seems to be emerging among those who know more about pcode interrupt structure than I. The printf function does indeed disable the interrupts and run that way for quite a long time. Thus, the servo twitching seems to be mostly (...) (28 years ago, 21-Jan-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: encoders and analog ports
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| (...) well once again i've learnt the hardway. always get the latest software. downloaded the new libs, and that fixed me up. i was using the libs from when i first started with the hb (years ago). all my analogs are stable again. i am very happy. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Basic assembler and downloader question
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| I tried using dl.exe and the download appeared to work. However, the LED still did not turn on. Is something wrong with my code? Perhaps the RAM is not accessible at this point as the chip is in bootstrap mode? Again here is the listing (with the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Santa Fe Car Order
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| I was reading about the Santa Fe in some old magazines and they had a car order from a excursion in 1991. It was pulled by a Northern(S.F. 3751)* and 2 backup Dash 8-40CW Diesels(844 and 840). 3463 Baggage(Tool) Car* 77 Baggage Car 67 Sleeper "Regal (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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