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I have an application where I want to use the HandyBoard continually, 24 hours a day for months on end. Is it safe to run it continually with the trickle charger plugged in? Will it have enough power providing I only do a bit of IR and RS232 (...) (27 years ago, 18-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | hbtest errors
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I conquered downloading pcode_hb but had to use a Windows downloader to do it. IC loads fine but when I try to load hbtest.c I get the following error messages: Undefined function start_press Undefined function knob Undefined function stop_button (...) (27 years ago, 18-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Another pcode_hb.s19 Downloading Problem
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if using DLM, the proper switches are: dlm -ns -256 plus your COM port. make sure you are running in DOS, not a DOS shell. If using Windows, use HBDL.EXE. Fred In your message you said: (...) (27 years ago, 17-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Another pcode_hb.s19 Downloading Problem
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I am using an HB that I bought fully assembled from Gleason Research. When attempting to download the pcode_hb.s19 using via dlm(1) a:\pcode_hb.s19 -mb -ram -256 I get the following after all the dots: Synchronizing with board . . . OK Sending (...) (27 years ago, 17-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: pcode_hb download problem. Please Help me.
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Your problem appears to be the LCD module. (Strange I know) From the output in your message I would say that the PCODE was successfully downloaded but IC won't run if the LCD is either not connected or not working. This is because it trys to (...) (27 years ago, 16-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: pcode_hb download problem. Please Help me.
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ok, telephone cable, should be something like this: (please excuse the ascii art)(test by putting both connecters together, facing each other end-to-end. the colours dont really matter, as long as they match: ___...___ ___...___ --red-----| (...) (27 years ago, 16-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | pcode_hb download problem. Please Help me.
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I have a big problem to download pcode_hb.S19 on my Handy Board. The download looks like OK. I have this message on my PC Screen. 6811 .s19 file downloader. Version 7.31 Aug 3 1994 Copyright Randy Sargent 1994 Using port com1 Please place board in (...) (27 years ago, 16-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Tone generator questions
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hello. I'm reading through the Robot builders bonanza, and I'm on pp.266. On the bottom of the page (fig. 30-16), there is a tone generator that will generate 2 ones. As printed, theres a chip (4071) that limits only one of the tone jenerators to (...) (27 years ago, 16-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Looking for cables
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Mouser Electronics has a good selection of connectors that work well on the handyboard. They can be found at: (URL) (27 years ago, 15-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Downloading Problems
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I know that the cable works because a person I know has used the modem cable succesfully with their handyboard. Also, I have done a continuity check on the wires in the cable and comparred them to what Apple says is a modem cable, and it is (...) (27 years ago, 15-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Downloading Problems
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1. don't worry about the slightly out of spec voltages, +/- 5% is just not a problem. 2. you have already demonstrated that your board HW is OK by communicating from a Windows system. therefore 3. it is probably a cabling problem from your mac. you (...) (27 years ago, 15-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Downloading Problems
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Hello all, I am in the process of building my Handyboard. I have installed the CPU and some of the voltages seem suspect. For example the E-clock signal seems to be about 2.3 volts and the main system power measured at the +5 Volts terminal for the (...) (27 years ago, 15-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Vision
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(...) The article I saw it in was by Steve Ciarcia, in Byte Magazine, and entitled something like "The Micron Eye". Check through Byte magazine indexes and you should find the article. The Micromint company sold kits for it, might still. Curt Mills, (...) (27 years ago, 13-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Looking for cables
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I am having difficulty finding cables to connect to the headers on the Handy board. Specifically, I would like to find a 14-pin cable with a male end to connect the handy boards LCD header (U4) and a female end to connect to a header I have (...) (27 years ago, 13-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Interfacing a clock chip?
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Hi folks. Has anyone had any experience/success with interfacing a Motorola 6818 or 6818A clock chip to the 68HC11? I have some of both of these chips and would like to put them to use. Does anyone know the difference between the 6818 and the 6818A (...) (27 years ago, 12-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Error downloading Pcode in DOS
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Hi, I'm using dl in DOS. I recently assembled a new HB but I cannot download the Pcode to the HB. DL gives me this error message: Downloading 256 byte bootstrap (229 data) ......... ......... ......... Timeout on serial recieve. 1 chars left to (...) (27 years ago, 12-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Downloaders and Stuff
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I just finished building a handboard. I have found that the downloaders dl and dlm don't work in Windows 95, even if I reboot in DOS mode. I would have thaught that they would have worked in such a mode but they didn't. I also found that when I use (...) (27 years ago, 12-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Handy Board Problems
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after you download the S19 code, does your C program in the HB go away? i.e., whether or not you hold down start, your HB boots up with the IC message on the LCD? If NOT, then your downloader isn't communicating with your board either. Did your (...) (27 years ago, 11-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Vision
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In the early 80's Micron Technology (Idaho, USA) made chips specially designed for this, I suspect they still do. The chips come with a glass panel expoxied over the actual transistor panel in the chip. I was able to mount one on the focal plane of (...) (27 years ago, 11-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Vision
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Hello, I would like to know if anyone has tried to use old dynamic RAM chips to use as a smallkind of CCD camera? It should be possible to tear off the top cover of the chip and then expose them to light. The RAM cell should be sensitive to normal (...) (27 years ago, 11-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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