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(...) EE Question: How do you use a multimeter to measure the current? I was told that you need a current probe to do this kind of thing. ?? (28 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Here's an idea for you: For a mechanical system you could use two 'wiskers': one on top and one on the bottom of the 'bot. (Or one each side.) You set up the 'feeding pen' to be two parallel metal plates. Set them up so that the 'bot can roll (...) (28 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Unfortunately this is the LEAST amount of current the motor will draw when operating. You have measured the 'unloaded current'. Now, while you have your motor running, grab the shaft between your fingers and stop it, and measure that current. (...) (28 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Is there a way to use the LMD18200 motor driver as a replacement for the motor chip on the handyboard? I know that they are not pin compatable but is there some type of interface that can be built easily? Thanks. Keith Keith Soldavin (...) (28 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Has anyone worked up a system where a Hanyboard bot monitors it's battery level and then when it starts to get low it rolls over to a charging device and "plugs itself in"? It seems like this should be doable but I don't think I've seen any (...) (28 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I used the one available IR LED driver on the HB to drive a Radio Shack high-output IR LED. This, along with a Radio Shack IR decoder module (a little silver box about the size of a sugar cube that takes +5vdc and ground, and outputs a TTL level (...) (28 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) how did you take this measurement exactly? I think 75 mA might be kind of low, most motors will draw this much when they are just spinning but doing no useful work, but then draw much more when they are driving a geartrain. (...) actually, (...) (28 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Yesterday I tried to run a motor out of the HB. First I tried how much current it needed with a multimeter and a 5V power source ... The result 75mA. When I tried to run the motor from the HB, after turning on the motor at low speed (motor (0,20);) (...) (28 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) I've got a PIC chip programmed with IR collision-detection built into it (I'm trying to get some of the new 8 pin PICs to see if I can make an "all in one" unit. Basically the interface is two bits: bit 0 output - Turn on IR illumination (...) (28 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Fred, It seems to me that the first thing most people want to add to their robots that is not supported on the handyboard itself, is IR collission detection. How about including a modulator and driver for IR LED's, and a detector and demodulator (...) (28 years ago, 14-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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