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A lot of you guys (and girls) send-in nice ASCII schematics. The point is, they look really messed up in MSIE4.0's OutLook, since I find type-fonts like the good-old Courier, only 'Courier new', which is no good either. Does anybody now a solution (...) (27 years ago, 29-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Brennan Mair: Replacement Components
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I'm no authority, but you might get away with a 3 amp fuse in a pinch. However, the Polyswitch fuse is actually a PTC Thermistor designed to work as a sort of solid state circuit breaker. These have a variety of names; look for "PTC fuse", "PTC (...) (27 years ago, 29-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Congratulations (I think ????)
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Hi Scott (& everyone), Yes, two days ago the LEGO company officially launched "LEGO Mindstorms," which is a new brand and product line inspired by the MIT Programmable Brick research. Scott -- thanks for noticing, and digging up the URL (URL). I am (...) (27 years ago, 29-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Connecting radio module (BiM 418 F)
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I have been thinking of getting a pair of those babies. How much did they cost you? Thanks. Jun Nolasco nolasco@inx.net (...) (27 years ago, 29-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Congratulations (I think ????)
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Hi Fred There was a short article on the news last night about a new Lego robotics product that looked alot like the "lego intelligent brick" concept you were working on last year... A bit of searching revealed the site (URL) which mentions the MIT (...) (27 years ago, 28-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Question re hc374 Digital Out Solution
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Then if Y0, Y2, and Y4 were all used for this purpose, I assume 24 digital outputs could be realized? Cool. Thanks for the response, I'll give it a try. Stephen (...) (27 years ago, 28-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Connecting radio module (BiM 418 F)
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Hello all, I would like to be able to 'drive' my robot using the Handy Board via a radio link. For this purpose I have bought two transceivers, the Radiometrix BiM 418 F. How can I connect it to my Handy Board? The wiring is as follows (leaving out (...) (27 years ago, 28-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Question re hc374 Digital Out Solution
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I have already used the four digital outs on the SPI header and I need more digital outputs from my HandyBoard. These questions may show that I'm a neophyte as a hardware hacker, but I could use some help. In the HandyBoard FAQ under the question: (...) (27 years ago, 27-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Suppliers for mc68hc811e2 and other parts
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Does anyone have a good source for getting the E2 chip and other parts that are used to build the handyboard and miniboard. In my search for a good price on the E2 I found that Newark has the chip for $27.00. Newark also has many of the other parts (...) (27 years ago, 27-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | SPI routine for EEPROM, corrected web link
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Some of you have had problems loading the app note. We found out a little late that Netscape doesn't like directory names that have a space in it. This has now been corrected. Application note on hooking up a EEPROM to the Finger Board SPI port. (...) (27 years ago, 27-Jan-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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