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| | zip archive of trincoll robot pix available
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| good suggestion. i've put a link to a ZIP of all the pix at the pix page, (URL) 3.9 MB. kinda big, but oh well. this should also help re: the two messages i saw re: netscape not being able to load the pictures. i don't know what's wrong, the pix are (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE
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| Greetings, This is the periodic message about unsubscribing. Please DO NOT send unsubscribe messages to the whole list. To unsubscribe, send email to fredm@media.mit.edu. Regards, Fred (27 years ago, 19-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Charge polarity on each board opposite?
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| (...) Fred, I use dl on a DOS 286, which does the CONFIG register automatically I thought. In any case, I tried using dl -eeprom config0c.s19, with the same results. The dl of pcode_hb.lis runs nominally, but the LCD remains all black across the top (...) (28 years ago, 5-Sep-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Vector 2x giving me lots of trouble...
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| Hi all, I am having lots of trouble with the vector 2x compass. Sometimes it seems to work fine. Other times it just ouputs zeros (like someone else was saying...). I checked all the physical wiring, and that seems to be fine. The strange thing is (...) (27 years ago, 16-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Soldering...
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| (...) Mirco >System, since I'm a bit tight with money. However, I'm a bit hesitant >about assembling the kit because I have no experience at all with (...) like the HB before (I'm a software type guy), but thanks to Fred Martin's concise (...) (27 years ago, 20-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Vector 2x giving me lots of trouble...
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| Well, I seemed to have narrowed down the problem I was having with the Vector2x compass. It was functioning fine... All I had to do was write clean code that called comp_disable(1) at the end. When my code wasn't doing that, the compass IRQ routines (...) (27 years ago, 17-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Generic 68HC11 board question-
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| w/o the ds1233, the contents of the ram will become corrupted during power-up or power-down of the 6811. an r/c could protect during power-up, but wouldn't reset the 6811 during power down. remember it's still trying to execute code as system (...) (27 years ago, 20-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | re: Digital Micro Systems
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| (...) I called them up a couple of weeks ago to order complete boards, and they said they were backordered on the completed kits, but could send an unassembled kit. So I ordered a kit and it arrived in 3 days. It turned out that I had received a bad (...) (27 years ago, 20-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IR signal
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| Sounds to me like your LED is just not focused straight ahead. I found that sticking the IR LED in a Radio Shack panel mount LED holder (cat no 276-080a) worked the best for focusing the beam of IR. I had tried soda straws and other things, but the (...) (27 years ago, 21-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 6500 Sonar and HandyBoard
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| Kent, I read your quick explaination of how to connect the Polaroid 6500 sonar board to the HandyBoard, and I have a couple of questions.... Mainly, you mention that the INIT signal plugs into pin 9 of the second motor driver chip socket, and that (...) (27 years ago, 20-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: IR
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| Brett, Since I'm going through a couple of corporate LANs and WANs, it would be no easy task to reconfigure my mailer. Perhaps you could tell Eudora to filter your messages if the To: field *contains* the word handyboard, rather than the whole (...) (27 years ago, 22-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | weird headers
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| That particular weird header is originated by John Whitten, aka root@snotnose.wizard.org, not my mail list program. All my mail list program does is forward along any mail sent to "handyboard@media.mit.edu" to each person on the distribution list. (...) (27 years ago, 22-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IR
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| Hello all, I've been playing with IR proximity sensors, and wonder if anyone can provide some suggestions. I hooked up an IR LED (Radio Shack 'high output IR LED') to the Handyboard's IR output with a 330ohm resistor in series (the smallest value (...) (27 years ago, 22-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: weird headers
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| (...) Thanks, I stuck a pot in it's place and fiddled with it until I got 4.49k and it worked great. I came up with the 4.49k by taking 1/x*.0068 = 32.75. Where .0068 is the cap, and 32.75 was my desired frequency. So x was determined to be 4.49 (...) (27 years ago, 23-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Motors: Please help! Going out of my mind...
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| Please somebody help! Actually it's not quite that bad, but I've been searching and hunting trying to find some motors to use for a new robot base. Does anyone have any suggestions for where to find motors with gearboxes that can carry a few pounds (...) (27 years ago, 25-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | brief hiatus
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| hi all, i'm out of the country and probably out of e-mail touch through sunday. mailing list unsubscribe requests, etc. will be handled next week. best, fred (27 years ago, 10-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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