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| Tomaso Paoletti has kindly sent me the latest version of his 6811 simulator, easily the best available for the Macintosh. It's available on cher in the projects/6811 directory, but cher is down right now, so you can get it from the HB home page: (...) (28 years ago, 26-Oct-96, 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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| | HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE
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| Greetings, This is the periodic friendly reminder that in order to unsubscribe, you must send an email to fredm@media.mit.edu asking thusly. Again, the method for unsubscribing is: 1. write an email saying "please unsubscribe me"; 2. send it to (...) (26 years ago, 24-May-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: voltage regulator
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| there is probably some other circuit on your board that is drawing too much power. put your finger on the other chips and see if any of them is hot (there shouldn't be any). if necessary, remove all socketed chips to see if you can get the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HandyBoard and iMac?
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| hi eric, i haven't tried any of these products, but they *should* work. the mac hb software uses low level driver calls, so if that stuff is patched and translated to usb, it would work. but if i were you i'd get one and try it on an existing (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Modem Cable
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| It is straight-thru. Please note that if you are connecting from a 9-pin male PC port to the HB interface's 25-pin female, the means that you have the following mapping: DB-9 DB-25 2 3 3 2 5 7 In other words, the same cable as you would use to (...) (27 years ago, 5-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Address locations port d and y0
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| it's in the faq, at (URL) you do is write to 0x4000, 0x5000, 0x6000 depending on whether your latch is attached to Y0, Y2, or Y4 (respectively). e.g., "poke(0x4000, 0xff);" will set all the bits of a latch attached to Y0 to 1. Fred In your message (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: servo help
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| try running the servo off of a separate power supply; e.g., 4 AA cells. you'd connect the servo red wire to the battery + lead, the servo black wire to the battery - lead, and also connect the battery - lead to the HB motor ground. in general it is (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: non-linear motor speed problem
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| The test isn't fair under no-load conditions, because then the motor just spins when you give it any signal. Are you sure the performance is the same when you have a full operating load? This would not make sense; I would guess that this would mean (...) (28 years ago, 11-Mar-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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| | 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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| | HB web site renovated!
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| Hi everyone, I've completed the HB web site's first major renovation, after about two years of existence. I'm pretty excited about the new look, which hopefully will serve the primary purpose of making information easier to find. it's there at the (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: questions re: unix version of IC
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| Joshua - There should be no problems using the Gleason Research libraries (or any of the libraries that are on the web site). There are no differences between version 2.851 and 2.860 from the point of view of the libraries. There is a pre-compiled (...) (27 years ago, 13-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | notice of downtime
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| dear all, we are moving computers within the building next week, and the el.www web server will be down beginning Monday for a while -- hopefully, just a day or two. in the meantime, please use the old URL to access the Handy Board web site: (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 22-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion Board Files
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| argh!@ my last email (which may arrive before this one) is in reply to this. repeating it in the proper context: yes, there was a linefeed bug in the expsens.c file in hbexplib.zip. it should be fixed now. please re-download from the expansion board (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Board synch problem
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| two things you can try: 1. use DLM to download the CONFIG0C.S19 file. Make sure to use the -eeprom flag. This will cause it to burn the config register to the proper value. 2. Have you tried Randy Sargent's DL.EXE for DOS / Win 3.1 full screen DOS (...) (27 years ago, 20-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Re[2]: phone cord length
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| thx for correcting my wording. e.g., instead of saying "half twist" i should say "straight through". anyhow, we agree on the definition of what is a phone cable and what is not a phone cable, we just have a different way of illustrating it. the (...) (28 years ago, 7-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Voltage
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| (...) 12v is fine. you could up go to 18v or so w/o problems. you might not even need to change the adapter. if the yellow charge LEDs light, then the batt is charging ok. it will be slower than the original pack but maybe that is not a problem for (...) (27 years ago, 20-Jul-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: hbtest.c errors
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| (...) ... (...) your Interactive C is not loading the correct libraries. Make sure IC is configured to load lib_hb.lis, NOT lib_r22.lis. Get the latest lib_hb.c, lib_hb.lis, and lib_hb.icb from the Software resources area of the HB web site. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Handy Board Header
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| make sure you get FEMALE header for the HB itself. The only male header is for the LCD, to plug it into its female socket on the HB. It looks like the ED72xx parts are MALE. You probably want ED71xx for female. Please note I haven't ordered ED7xxx (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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