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mine is doing the same thing only it displays 7" i hear ticking constantly HELP bryan wiabel offrds2@aol.com (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) The one that is mounted is in a plastic box, glued in with silicon glue. The unmounted one was laying on my bench pointed at the ceiling. (...) I assume the 'blank inhibit' pin is BINH (docs are at home, I am at work), and that is connected to (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Since 8" is the 'minimum' distance the board can see, I strongly suspect that your transducer isn't sufficiently damped. This will cause it to continue 'ringing' after the pulse is sent and when the receiver switches on, its still vibrating so (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello everyone, My thinking (albeit limited), has been that simply driving an IR LED with ac (ie:40Khz) as opposed to static dc, is enough to discriminate it from other frequencies like 60 Hz. or whatever. Then, when the detector picks up sufficient (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) The motors are 12 volt 1 amp motors. I know that the piggyback method will give me the higher current but I am not that fond of that method. I would prefer to have one controller that has power to spare than a rigged system that will just (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) I am running 12 volt motors that draw about 1 amp each. They were the only motors that I had available for the project so I made due. Keith Keith Soldavin kas219@email.psu.edu (URL) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Yup. I have one of those tapeless tape measures with the smaller transducer, and the handyboard connected one is louder, so I wonder if that might be something? (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Tom, Are you hearing a ticking sound coming from the transducer? Let me know. (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, with all this talk of sonar, I thought I finally get to hooking mine up. All I get is 8". If I unplug it, I get 0". I'd swear I have it hooked up right. Someone sent out a mail earlier this week, and I had mine hooked up just like it said. I (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I got my 6811s from Allied Electorics - www.allied.avnet.com My LM052Ls came from Marshall - www.marshall.com For the Sharp IS1U60, I substituted the Sharp GP1U58Y. I got them from NovaSoft 1-804-272-5752 or 1-407-672-6780 Note that the pin (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Keith, How much current do your motors require. The SN754410 offers 1A per channel. If your piggy back them you can increase this to 2A/channel. Let me know. (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Phil, Let me tell you that when someone made the same suggestion to me I hade to reconsider the demolition of my beautiful (expensive!) HB. My solution is this.... Simple take up pin 8 of the driver chip (SN754410) and wire it so that it may be (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Keith, On the ftp site under ???/contrib/kent/sonar there should be a file called sonartst.c This file tests the unit goven that you've included sonar.icb in the initial loading of library files. The file simply calls the ping(0) routine then waits (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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The 18200 requires 12V motors, is that what you have? I ask because they are fairly unusual in small bots. --Chuck (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Does anyone know an easy way to replace the motor drivers on the handyboard with the 18200 chip from National Semiconductor? The motors I am going to be driving need more current that the old ones can put out so I need to upgrade. I know that they (...) (28 years ago, 20-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Does anyone have a source for the following parts or suitable substitutes: Motorola 6811 microprocessor Hitachi 16x2 LCD Sharp IS1U60 infrared demodulator SGS-Thompson L293D motor driver William F. Conroy III conroyw@acm.org Lt Col, USAF (28 years ago, 19-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Most Connor disk drives have a 68HC11A1FN on them. If you find someone throwing one away, it is a cheap HC11. (...) Digi-key sells these. (...) Ben Wirz sells these. Also look for the TI replacement possibly. (28 years ago, 19-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, Does anyone have recent model #'s, part #'s, or suppliers for Hall Effect magnetic sensors that interface directly with the Handy Board. There is a picture of a Hall sensor on page 52 of the Handy Board Technical Reference, but no part number or (...) (28 years ago, 19-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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please get me off this mailing list (28 years ago, 19-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) I just looked back to the IR transmitter schematic... The 1K res + RED LED you see there is for the only purpose of having a visible feedback of IR transmission. The IR Led and it's limiting resistor (if the case) will be connected in series (...) (28 years ago, 19-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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