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Has anyone heard of a release date for a new version of IC for Win 95? The bugs in the present beta are getting... irritating. Maybe I should write a $100 check to Newton Labs and see what happens, eh? :-) (29 years ago, 17-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC download errors
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Today, IC 3.1 has decided it no longer wants to communicate with my handy board. It detects the board, I select the Handy Board .icd file, and then it tries to download the default files to the board. However, it errors out on each retry, and gets (...) (29 years ago, 18-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC problems, part II
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Also, IC ctually _works_ if I'm downloading something with my internal modem. This is probably slowing down the transfers IC is making enough for them to work. Once the download stops, however, IC quits working again. Truly strange. (29 years ago, 18-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC problems, part III!
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Alright, one more fun fact - the old shareware version of IC works fine, running under the Win 95 MS-DOS prompt. I think that eliminates any possibility of a hardware problem, meaning it's IC 3.1 at fault! Hbdl works fine as well, under Win 95. (...) (29 years ago, 18-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC problems, part II
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(...) (29 years ago, 18-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Digital Outs?
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How can I set up digital outputs from the handyboard? I would like to drive 3 or 4 LEDs on my robot. Can I make the digital ins outputs? Alternatively, are there any serial rs-232 facilities available on the handy board other than one used for (...) (29 years ago, 18-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Digital Outs?
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(...) See the FAQ: (URL) Alternatively, are there any serial rs-232 facilities available on the (...) This would be easy to do; someone just has to write 6811 machine code to perform async serial out functions. you would be able to use any of the 4 (...) (29 years ago, 19-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Greetings! I am new to the handyboard, and am currently building my first robot. I am having a problem with docs.. I have icmanual.ps AND icmain.pdf.. The problem is that I am using an Amiga, and cannot read or decode either of these formats. Could (...) (29 years ago, 20-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) OK, take a look at (URL) installed a link for you. Also, did you know the IC manual is on the web? It is at (URL) I am not sure, but I would bet there is an implementation of GhostScript for Amiga. Check it out. This would let you view (...) (29 years ago, 20-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: your mail
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(...) Ghostscript for the Amiga is pretty unusable. I tried it quite a while ago, and got thoroughly sick of it. My solution was to start using my parents' Pentium. :-) (29 years ago, 20-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | european handy board users census
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european handy board users, please send me an e-mail, i would like to ask you a few questions. ******** thanks in advance silvain pinot (living in france and wondering if yes or no he will build a handy board) (29 years ago, 21-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | So close, yet so far
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AAaarghh. I soldered in the final connections for the outgoing pulse-trains from TOC2. I use the Handyboard to take in pulse trains on IC2 and IC3, massage the numbers, and output the massaged commands on OC2 and OC3. Only the signals go through the (...) (29 years ago, 21-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: So close, yet so far
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This is almost certainly software. your i23o123.icb file is trashing the interrupt vectors and the board crashes. -f (...) (29 years ago, 21-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: So close, yet so far
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(...) But the hearbeat continues on the handyboard, and the software worked before I soldered the Futaba J connector on, hence my thinking that I hurt the board and caused a hardware failure. Could a hardware failure make the board crash at this (...) (29 years ago, 21-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 6 servos
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Hi all, I want to build a six legged walking robot using the handyboard. I want to use 6 servo motors for that. I heard that the handyboard can only control 2 servos, but that there is a servo controller board which can control up to 32 servos, (...) (29 years ago, 22-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: 6 servos
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This multiple servos thing is reaching FAQ status, and here is how I plan to deal with it. Scott Edwards Electronics sells a cheap ($30 kit, $45 assembled) servo board that drives 8 servos. You can gang them to get 32 servos or even more. The boards (...) (29 years ago, 22-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | FW: 6 servos
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This would be a very powerful enhancement to the handy-board. It would obviously allow easy communication between the HC11 and PIC boards. Since my application will use 2+ PICs in addition to the Handyboard, it would allow easy networking of all 3 (...) (29 years ago, 22-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Expansion interface status
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Does anyone know the current status of the expansion interface? My poor handy is at capacity for some i/o functions ;-( (29 years ago, 22-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion interface status
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(...) Yes. The current status is "on hold" while I rethink the feature set. I'm considering doing something more like Scott Edward's little servo board for HB expansion: that is, a collection of small, physically detached boards. For servo's, I (...) (29 years ago, 22-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: 6 servos
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(...) Are the digital outputs at 5v high? I think you mentioned on the HB homepage about the serial interface converting RS232 levels at +12 and -12v to TTL levels (5v). I'm not that familiar with the nitty gritty of RS232 so this kinda puzzles me. (...) (29 years ago, 22-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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