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| hi all, we had a filesystem upgrade last night and both of the Handy Board web servers (el.www.etc and lcs.www.etc) are presently down. Hope to have at least one of them running later today. Fred (26 years ago, 2-Sep-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Bootstrap download mode
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| see if you can get it to go into download mode when you don't have the phone cable plugged in. if this works, then you have some kind of probl with your serial connection. make sure you have a normal modem cable, and a telephone style RJ11 cable (...) (26 years ago, 4-Sep-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: TLG 'DOES' read this...
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| I originaly ordered the catalog from... (URL) got just the Datca educational catalog and after compaining about it here the next day I got the real Lego/Datca catalog a week later. The Lego/Datca catalog has all the educational pacs for Lego and (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Questions for Fred
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| Fred, or who every can answer this. I have implemented the smooth PWM routines and are very happy with them. I notice now that there is a fix for the analog sensor reading bug. One file that is replaced is the lib_hb.c file, which was also the file (...) (26 years ago, 10-Sep-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: bootstrap mode in assembling the HB
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| yes, RP4 is four isolated resistors, and this being part of the serial line circuit, definitely explains your problem if you are using the common-terminal style. you can just install four 1K resistors if you don't have the correct r-pack handy. fred (...) (26 years ago, 9-Sep-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HandyBoard anb Logo ???
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| Hi It's the first time I join this list, I was wondering if somebody could give me some biography or link about logo and robots. If I'm "off subject" or if you know a list more involved in this subject please let me know. I plan to use a handy board (...) (27 years ago, 17-Dec-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: $40 good deal for 8456?
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| $40 is worth it, my wife paid $80 at x-mass for mine. And yes... The dragster is most cool motorized w/power steering and all. Scoots around my living room real well too. Definatly get 2 if they are only $40. I would, the fiber optic and green hinge (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Missing/malformed pieces?
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| I have a few mutilated technic beams that won't "lock" onto anything at all... In fact they are only good for the custom beam w/a hacksaw. Unfortunatly they were 16 stud beams in black, my favorite ones. The bigger the chasis the stronger the car. (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | analog input test
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| Fred; I am at the testanalogs portion of the assembly process. All has gone well up until this point. The knob varies between 0 and 255 as expected and the seven numbers all come up either 254 or 255 when I press the START button. However I am (...) (27 years ago, 5-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: lcd screen pinouts
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| the LCD should work fine. On the HB, pin 1 is on the top left, and pin 14 is on the top right. Just hook them up in order and you're all set. Fred In your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 18-Sep-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Probably a FAQ...
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| ...what's the ratio of distance between stud centers to thin piece height in a LEGO brick? (Which is to say, if I wanted to build a more-or-less perfect sphere out of LEGO... my own Death Star, f'rinstance... what aspect ratio would I use?) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Weird
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| (...) I wound up over-analyzing it, actually. See, before I even moved from the first post, I said to myself, 'hmm, prolly a math puzzle of some sort', and wrote down the cards... red king, black jack... then I clicked on the tornedo. Then I (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Thanks Fred et al...
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| My first scratch-built HamdyBoard has passed all of it's tests and is up and running. I've only been looking for something like this for about twelve years, so I'm REAL happy. I especially appreciate the emphasis on both hardware and software (...) (27 years ago, 18-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Serial input
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| the only easy way to get a serial input is to take over the console port used by IC. this isn't hard to do, but you lose the ability to interact with the board via IC while your board is running your code which is tlaking to the alternate serial (...) (26 years ago, 22-Sep-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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