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| Hey folks, I can't get my HB downloaded on my dual Pentium Pro running Windows NT (3.51). Anybody done this? HBDL complains that none of the COM ports are available, and my event log claims conflicts occur between COM ports (managed by SERIAL) and (...) (28 years ago, 14-Jan-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: You know, I just had a wacky thought...
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| It is not completely wacky, but there are issues. For example most audio amplifiers aren't rated for DC operation (that having their output stay at one level permanently) You can fix this by rectifying the output of the amplifier and providing a DC (...) (28 years ago, 14-Jan-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Re[2]: phone cord length
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| (...) No, that is wrong; the RS232 is converted to TTL at the serial interface board, so you do have TTL on the phone cord. In any event, I would guess that 50 ft. would not be a problem; we're talking about 9600 baud here which is pretty slow. BTW, (...) (28 years ago, 4-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: NOTE 04/10/97 10:50:15
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| OK, I haven't looked at encoders.asm but if the following doesn't help just send more questions. (...) Sounds about right. (...) TCTL2 sets rising, falling, or both edge modes; TMSK1 arms interupts; IC event sets the TFLG1 register. (...) correct (...) (27 years ago, 14-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| AN OPEN LETTER TO PROFESSORS JAKE MENDELSSOHN AND DAVID AHLGREN, ESTEEMED FOUNDERS OF THE TRINITY COLLEGE FIRE-FIGHTING ROBOT COMPETITION. Wed Apr 23 00:50:42 1997 Dear Jake and Dave, Thank you for organizing such a fantastic robotic event. It was (...) (27 years ago, 23-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| I too was there during the contest though I was not one of the participants. I would like to add that the fire-fighting contest was the very first robot event I have been to. Now I plan to go to some of the other ones this year. Now I know why quite (...) (27 years ago, 23-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Trinity Robot Contest.
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| Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing them, Fred. Next time maybe someone can put up some mpegs. :) I noticed some things that sparked my curiosity. First, what are those red boxes that quite a few contestants were using...for what appeared to be (...) (27 years ago, 14-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Robotics contest program
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| FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE FIRE FIGHTING HOME ROBOT CONTEST. Since it's inception in 1992, the Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest has been a huge success. Each year increasing numbers of people from throughout the United States and Canada have (...) (27 years ago, 1-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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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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| Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest Miscellaneous comments and feedback to questions ***...*** Dear contest participant and/or spectator I am sending you this general message in response to your comments and feedback about the contest. (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Robot contest video
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| The video of the 1997 Trinity College Fire-fighting Home Robot Contest is now available! This 57 minute VHS video contains highlights of this largest, public, true Robotics competition held in the U.S. that is open to entrants of any age, ability or (...) (27 years ago, 28-Jun-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Expanding the memory of the handyboard
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| We used OEM barcode reader (IS4120-41 scanner decode engine) from Metrologic Instruments, Inc.. The output of this reader is the barcode ASCII format transmitted across an RS232 line. We read this with the handy board's RS232 serial port. You can (...) (27 years ago, 19-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | robot contest at Penn State
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| Hi All, The Penn State Abington College (Abington, Pa -- Phila., PA suburb) will host a preliminary fire-fighting robot contest on Sat, April 4, 1998 at 3pm. The fire-fighting contest is based on rules developed by Trinity College Fire-fighting (...) (27 years ago, 3-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help!! Polaroid problem!!!
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| (...) residual noise? It was my understanding that the Polaroid module used pulse time differentials to relay distance information. One need only look at the difference in time, between the leading edge of the init pulse, and the leading edge of the (...) (26 years ago, 23-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | My LCD driver
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| Attached to this message is the LCD driver I wrote for the Handyboard written using ICC11. Feel free to use it. Some notes on it: The driver is designed to operate asynchronously. This is because the LCD can take several milliseconds to complete its (...) (26 years ago, 3-May-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Subtasks quitting before completing
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| I saw some posts during the last three days about subtasks quitting before completing. I never saw a solution, so I will re-ask the question. If my robot triggers a touch sensor and before it completes all of the commands in that group of commands (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Apple Microphones
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| (...) I would only caution you that there are two types of microphones for the Mac -- regular mics and "PlainTalk" microphones. I suspect you are talking about a PlainTalk mic. The obvious distinguishing difference is the "longer than normal" male (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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