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| Adam, I don't use -5v, I just use a single 5v supply. You have to choose your op-amp carefully - I am currently trying ICL7612 but I'm looking at another sort which might turn out to be better. With a single supply, you have to bias things around (...) (28 years ago, 4-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Adam, I have it working, but I want to tidy it up a bit. At the moment it uses 2 op-amp stages, I think it can work with one. After all, it's just a precision diode! I will put something on in a few days. Fred, I do not have schematic capture (...) (28 years ago, 10-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi Joe, Do you have the C-code that you are attempting to use and have the problem with ? Could you please post or send it to me ? I could not see any thing wrong from what you described in the mail. It is clearer to see the code. Regards, -Pandit (...) (28 years ago, 17-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | SONARS GALORE!!!
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| For those who are interested..... I have recently developed a way of signalling 4 sonars from the HB using a logical switching circuit controlled by one ranging board and another board developed to switch which transducer is being signalled by the (...) (28 years ago, 21-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Bill is right, U8 is a '374. Peter, where exactly are you looking that you don't see U8 listed? It's there at (URL) post URLs if you're trying to help me maintain the site. Thanks. -Fred In your message you said: (...) (28 years ago, 26-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) You're more than welcome. As for mounting: I have found that custom cutting stainless steel brackets with a dremel tool to be most effective. Sturdy but flexible for purposes of fine adjustment. Basically it's a long tab that slides through (...) (28 years ago, 5-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Maybe i'm beating this subject to death, but it's driving me crazy. I've read every post and readme file i can find and my sonar still does not work. 6500 hb pin 1 gnd pin 4 pin 9 motor driver socket ( ic removed) pin 7 analog port 0 (marked 7 on (...) (27 years ago, 27-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Thanks. I tries that. I even tried to use four of them in parralel. OK, here's what I've discovered...just to let you all in on it and maybe it'll help someone in the future. I pulled the leads from the motor header and powered the motors directly (...) (27 years ago, 21-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| I was getting the exact same result when I ran motors with the HB while using my sonar. The problem was that there was alot of noise caused by my motors...apparently electrical and EMI. Do you have alot of components that may be causing some noise (...) (27 years ago, 22-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| I would like to use the PortA input capture interrupts. Has anyone succeeded in writting code using Interactive C that accomplishes this? If so could you post or send me some sample code? Thanks Raj (27 years ago, 27-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | To HB or not to HB, that is the question.
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| I've been looking into the HandyBoard, and it looks great. I'm wondering if I could get some opinions here. A friend of mine and I are going to build a robot, and we are trying to decide if we should go with the HB, or make something else. I know (...) (27 years ago, 23-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Bob Avanzato wrote: >I am happy to report that Penn State Abington teams placed 1st, 3rd, and 5th. Bob, Congratulations to you and your team. Well done! I lament there was nothing like this in my school days, but it's nevertheless great to have it (...) (27 years ago, 14-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi there- As I recently posted, I was having trouble figuring out how to assemble both *.icb files and the pcode itself. Well, thanks to a nice respondant (Max Davies- Thanks Max :) I finally got it all figured out. I made up a Unix style Makefile (...) (27 years ago, 29-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| please post any answers to the board, as I also have ImageCraft's C compiler and have been as yet unable to set it up properly. thanks, -patrick (...) HandyBoard. (...) your (...) using (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jul-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | vakantie jaron
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| hoi han, zou jij voor de komende periode (tot 1 juli) mijn elektronische post dat binnenkomt op jaron.paludanus@rnw.nl (èn synoniemen) kunnen doorsturen naar 101377.1661@compuserve.com, thanxs * Radio Nederland Wereldomroep * Afdeling Informatie (...) (27 years ago, 12-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Lego USB Tower and the Linux Driver
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| An earlier thread [ (URL) ] touched on changing the baud rate of the USB IR tower. Based on what information I have been able to find, it appears that at one time the Lego USB driver for Linux did include the ability to change the baud rate and (...) (14 years ago, 10-Sep-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | FW: Time to get political!
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| ---...--- From: Susan M Moll Sent: Friday, June 06, 1997 11:57 AM To: Josh Diehl; Carrie Fisher; Kit Wetzler; Juan Preciado; Barb; Greg Larson; Chris Mash; Josh Stumpf; Andra Blythe Pfautz; Dave Trask; Bill Jacobs; John Kinsella; Jenna Shields; (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Walker Invasion #2
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| More and more people are building walker robots each week. These web sites can help you become one of them soon. Steven Bolt just posted a note about his "Spider" robot on the BEAM list. His web site shows the eight-leg robot and includes (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | voice synthesis
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| Has anyone been able to set up a voice synthesis circuit with their Handy Board? I remember that quite a few years ago, Radio Shack carried a pair of voice synthesis chips that appeared easy to connect to an 8 bit data bus or serial line, but my (...) (27 years ago, 1-Jul-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: New list member
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| In response to David's post about using the Mini SSC 2 boards and producing a walking robot (my aim is a 12 servo 6 legged walker) I am writing to provide the information that I have found. I have posted a similar question to David about the MiniSSC (...) (27 years ago, 24-Jul-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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