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| (...) Laurent -- just to be clear -- your problem is that you can't bootstrap your board from a G3 Mac, but after you do get it booted, everything's OK? Fred (27 years ago, 20-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| please see the FAQ on this, look for the entry on "help my interface board is smoking and R11 is turning black!" (that's what happens if you get it wrong) fred (...) (27 years ago, 22-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Vector 2x giving me lots of trouble...
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| F> Hi all, I am having lots of trouble with the vector 2x F> compass. Sometimes it seems to work fine. Other times it just F> ouputs zeros (like someone else was saying...). I checked all F> the physical wiring, and that seems to be fine. The (...) (27 years ago, 29-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Dear Fred: I have not received any messages from [handyboard] since May5, (exactly the date when my credit card was charged $100 for the professional copy of IC3.1). I also have not received any printed manuals (promised just after May 5th) and my (...) (27 years ago, 26-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sonar questions (technical ones!)
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| Good questions!! (...) The polaroid number/widely quoted number is 0.9 MILLISECONDS PER FOOT -- or 1.11 ft/ms. hence the conversion matches! I think also I have this wrong on my HB sonar page! This confused me for a while too. (...) Yes, this is (...) (27 years ago, 26-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE FIRE FIGHTING HOME ROBOT CONTEST. Since it's inception in 1992, the Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest has been a huge success. Each year increasing numbers of people from throughout the United States and Canada have (...) (27 years ago, 1-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hmm.. Seems my reply address was wrong in my original message, so i'm re-posting this with the right address. (Thanks Fred for pointing this out). I'm working with a robot where weight is very important. I was wondering if anyone had the exact (...) (27 years ago, 9-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| F> Kent, F> I read your quick explaination of how to connect F> the Polaroid 6500 sonar board to the HandyBoard, and I have a F> couple of questions.... F> Mainly, you mention that the INIT F> signal plugs into pin 9 of the second motor driver chip (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Big thanks to everyone who respnded to my original question. I have essentially ruled out an IRQ conflict. I have a PS/2 mouse (IRQ 12) and only com1 (serial port) and com2 (modem) are enabled. HBDL always returns the addressing error while (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Maze madness
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| Maze-running competitions are one of the earliest ways used to test mobile robots. They force developers to build mechanical mice that quickly learn the most effective path to a goal and reach it in the shortest time. The mazes range from tabletop (...) (27 years ago, 9-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: HBDL still not working with win95...
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| 2 things to try... first... slow down the baud... 9600 should be fine for a 64k program... it may take a min but how much speed do you need?... if that works... try 19200, 38700, blah blah blah... if neither of those work... jump into your bios and (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| In the Polaroid manual, the connector is referred to as a "Burndy 9 pin connector SLP9S-2". I once spoke to someone at Polaroid who gave me the cross reference "JST 1B0579A" (don't know if it's Burndy or not). I am pretty sure the cable is standard (...) (27 years ago, 8-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| 1. please read the Appendix B documentation in (URL) explains this in more detail than the FAQ. 2. you must the even-numbered Yx signals for output latches. Since Y6 is taken (by the on-board latch for the motor drivers), you're left with Y0, Y2, (...) (27 years ago, 13-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi, I have started a project to build a Handy Board and everything was going fine until I started checking voltage in step 3.2.2. I get around +5 volts going from pin 2 of U16 to pin 7 of J9. Also, when checking pin 6 of U16 I'm getting nothing. I (...) (27 years ago, 12-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi Fred: The Mini SSC does have a TTL-mode, but it needs inverted data i/o mode. Rather than figuring out how to do that in s/w I just used the MAX232 because it was easy and it made debugging easy into a dumb terminal program on my PC. I've had (...) (27 years ago, 21-Jul-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: downloader for SGI
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| Nari: I don't know of a precompiled SGI version. You can build one yourself from the sources listed in ftp://cher.media.mit.../projects/ interactive-c/source/. Also, please be aware that when you send mail to "handyboard@media.mit.edu" you are (...) (27 years ago, 12-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) Fred, Where can one find info on the A1 vs E1 differences you mention. This is not in the 68HC11 reference manual (pink book). Thanks, Clay Timmons ctimmons@asic.sc.ti.com Dallas Personal Robotics Group www.dprg.org (27 years ago, 24-Jul-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 6.270 1998 videos available
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| ------- Forwarded Message Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by aleve.media.mit.edu (8.8.7/ML970927) with SMTP id BAA04302; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 01:08:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from DEPARTMENT-OF-ALCHEMY.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU (...) (27 years ago, 13-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| this actually should be fine. the characteristic of nicads is to have a fairly level output voltage as they discharge, and then drop off sharply when the power's all gone. so it should be no problem. fred (27 years ago, 29-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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