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Greetings, This is the periodic message about unsubscribing. Please DO NOT send unsubscribe messages to the whole list. To unsubscribe, send email to fredm@media.mit.edu. Regards, Fred (27 years ago, 19-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Handy Board Problem: getting hb back into download mode
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Hello, I'm at a loss for what will take to get either of the two boards into DL mode. The board has nothing plugged into it; the BATT and PWR LEDs flash on and then PWR remains on so I can not confirm the synptoms of the ds1233(U12) voltage monitor (...) (27 years ago, 19-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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unsubscribe Have compassion on those who live on earth and He who is in heaven will have compassion on you. God will show no compassion to him who has no compassion towards all mankind Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) (27 years ago, 19-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Get your soldering iron, some solder labeled electronics use, some old circuit board, and solder away. Or, you could take an old computer board and desolder some components from it, and re-solder them in. Just get in there and do it. You know (...) (27 years ago, 19-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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A mistake has been found on the V2X schematic, the M/S pin on the compass needs to be grounded. I don't know what it is, everytime I publish something, I make a mistake. (27 years ago, 19-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Strange HB problems
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Over the past two days I have had two problems with my HB that I can't explain. Maybe you you can help. 1. I wrote a simple program to test out my motors that consists of the motor, sleep, and beep commands. Once in a while I get an error back while (...) (27 years ago, 19-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Another note on soldering.. Heat control is VERY important.. Not so much being able to adjust the heat, as having a temperature-controlled iron. The "cheaper" irons get hotter or colder with the load (speed of soldering) as well as the room (...) (27 years ago, 19-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Often novices miss the single most fundamental point about soldering: you don't use the iron to melt the solder (99% of the time) -- you heat the component leads and let them melt the solder. To initially transfer heat effectively to the leads, a (...) (27 years ago, 18-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) experience >at all with soldering. (...) become more >adept at this sort of stuff. And what type of solder should I use? Shane is right, you'll find using very thin solder works much better. Along with a fine tip, you'll want to use a low (...) (27 years ago, 18-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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->Hi, I'm planning to purchase the handyboard as a kit from Digital Mirco System, since I'm a bit tight with money. However, I'm a bit hesitant (...) soldering. The trick is to use THIN 60/40 solder with flux core. Around 0.71 mm thickness is good. (...) (27 years ago, 17-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Well, I seemed to have narrowed down the problem I was having with the Vector2x compass. It was functioning fine... All I had to do was write clean code that called comp_disable(1) at the end. When my code wasn't doing that, the compass IRQ routines (...) (27 years ago, 17-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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This last week was the 1997 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), held in Louisville, Kentucky. While I don't have a list of winners/losers, I do have some things to say about it. There were five robots in the engineering (...) (27 years ago, 17-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, I'm planning to purchase the handyboard as a kit from Digital Mirco System, since I'm a bit tight with money. However, I'm a bit hesitant about assembling the kit because I have no experience at all with soldering. Can anyone recommend something (...) (27 years ago, 17-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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---...--- ericson mar Master of Engineering Candidate Project: Mobile Robotics mar@cooper.edu (212)353-4356 Department of Mechanical Engineering The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ---...--- (...) (27 years ago, 16-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Vector 2x giving me lots of trouble...
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Hi all, I am having lots of trouble with the vector 2x compass. Sometimes it seems to work fine. Other times it just ouputs zeros (like someone else was saying...). I checked all the physical wiring, and that seems to be fine. The strange thing is (...) (27 years ago, 16-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Can anyone tell me where I might find instructions for connecting the Polaroid 6500 sonar with the Handyboard? Thanks for any help... -=Fred Cass=- (27 years ago, 16-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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The data sheet for the Vector 2x is located at: (URL) have used their TCM2 electronic compass module. I was very please with it's performance and reliability. Vinny Gracchi ---...--- (...) (27 years ago, 15-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Sure Rich, why don't we share your code now. If you want to zip up your files and mail them to me, i'll put them on the HB web site. -Fred (...) c (...) " (...) (27 years ago, 15-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Baggerman, Clinton D. spake unto the ether: (...) Clint, I already have the converse of this problem (i.e., printing floats (and ints) to a remote console via serial_putchar()) solved. I'm currently working with Fred Martin to make these routines (...) (27 years ago, 15-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Reading floating point numbers
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My problem is that I need to read in a floating point number through the serial port. I tried using the serial_getchar function to read in the number as an int, then convert it to a float, but that was unsuccessful. I also tried altering the (...) (27 years ago, 15-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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