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| a few notes... in the faq there is a discussion about how to measure the resistance of a motor coil, as a way of determining if it's compatible with the hb. also in the faq, is a description of a mod that will allow using a separate power supply for (...) (26 years ago, 5-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE
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| hmm, the last reminder "didn't take." to unsubscribe from the Handy Board list, send mail to fredm@media.mit.edu. Please, please, *please* DO NOT send mail to handyboard. one thousand tongue lashings will follow if you disobey these instructions. (...) (26 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interactive C Primitives
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| these are documented in sec 5.10 of the hb tech ref. the larger issue is knowing the places you are supposed to peek and poke. some of these are hardware specific (e.g, motor port); others are software based/defined in the pcode implementation (...) (26 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: BEEPER
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| it *might* be comms problems between the HB and your PC. if you can find an old 386/486, try the downloader on that. also, try booting your PC into DOS mode and see if things work better. f. In your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: RCX and Java
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| (...) Both, at least last year. Sun has recently gone to open source for the JVM but previously their license fees were very expensive. Technically, there are better choices wrt real-time/embedded issues. Fred ---...--- Fred Rose Ph: 612.951.7106 (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | re: Club Ideas
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| Danger, long post. These are my comments on the Club/Group ideas: Of course they are all my own twisted opinions. ;-) FWIW. (...) I'm not too concerned with the name. baylug is fine. It's probably easier than researching/getting approval from LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Question for Fred
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| Hi Fred I have question for you. I have to control a position using the miniborad or the handyboard. And I don't know which motors is good the DC servo motor or the stepper motor and whats the diffrence? Another question if you don't mind, have you (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Pad sizes and hole sizes
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| I'm working on a board and I would like to avoid much trial and error. I have read much on selection of pad sizes/via sizes and hole sizes but there seems to be some contridiction. Does anyone know what the pad sizes (for ICs), hole sizes (for ICs) (...) (26 years ago, 24-May-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Disaster :-(
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| it's extremely unlikely that removing a battery will have done any harm. which program precisely are you using to download the pcode? you should be using HBDL.EXE or DL.EXE or DLM.EXE. you should be trying to download PCODE_HB.S19. also, make sure (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | re: RE
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| hi all, my take on the email format issue is that nearly everything should be handled on the client side. in other words, write your filters to deal with the "re's"; figure out that mail is from the handy board list by searching for (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion board & V2X & sonar
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| re: exp bd SPI pins: * 2 of the pins are used by the sonar and aren't separately available. * the other 2 SPI pins are at PCB holes J20 and J21. see the schem for details: (URL) you need all 4 spi pins for something, leave out the j11 sonar (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | data acquisition
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| this message is especially for Fred Martin: is there any way to retrieve a large integer array (1000 or so elements) from the handyboards memory, and save it in a file on the PC? thank you. Justin D. Gullotta.. , Engineer, Rensselaer Polytechnic (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jul-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | LCD Removal
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| I was just wondering if there's any way to disable and remove the LCD screen and still have the HB work. My design does not require the LCD, so if i could remove it my robot would then be a little more balanced. Every time I remove the LCD my (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: unsubscribe
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| dear amit (& others), sending messages to "handyboard" will NOT get you removed from the list. The only way to get removed from the list is to read the instructions and follow them. These instructions may be found at (URL) luck. this may be a (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Walking robot and change of email
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| Hi, I wonder if this is a little off topic, but since I got a Handyboard I would like to use it in a walking robot application. Does anyone have any experience in making 2-legged robots? Hmm.... Umm...and a message for Fred....my email has changed (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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