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Hallo, I am thinking about buying one of these things: Designer's Kit: 1 transducer, 1 ranging module, electronics display accurate to 1/10th meter. Cost is $169 OEM kit: 2 transducers, 2 ranging modules. $99. or: #01, Transducer and Sonar Module (...) (27 years ago, 23-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi from Paris, please add me to the Handy Board mailing list. e-mail : gab@biomath.jussieu.fr Thanks :-) (27 years ago, 23-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE
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1. Please *DO NOT* send unsubscribe messages to the handy board mailing list. 2. Instead, send unsubscribe messages to Fred Martin, fredm@media.mit.edu. 3. The only person who can unsubscribe you is Fred Martin, fredm@media.mit.edu. 4. Thank you. (...) (27 years ago, 23-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Please unsubscribe me from this list regards Rina (27 years ago, 23-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Please unsubscribe me from this list regards Bruce (27 years ago, 23-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: RJ11 cable
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please see the FAQ on this, look for the entry on "help my interface board is smoking and R11 is turning black!" (that's what happens if you get it wrong) fred (...) (27 years ago, 22-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC 3.2 announcement
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On a related note ... Sometime ago, someone(???) mentioned that he would attempt to build the new motor routines into IC3.1. Would this by any chance be already in IC3.2? Jun Nolasco nolasco@inx.net (...) (27 years ago, 21-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Ordering IC
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Dear Laurent and German, I wish to publicly apologize for Newton Lab's slowness of response to your messages of last fall. You should know that the employee in charge of handling IC sales and support during that time is no longer with the company. (...) (27 years ago, 20-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC 3.2 announcement
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After seeing some of the recent e-mail to this list, I realize that we should send out the following announcement to the Handyboard list. IC 3.2 for Windows fixes the problems that a percentage of folks reported about pcode download problems. (...) (27 years ago, 20-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: downloaded
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(...) Laurent -- just to be clear -- your problem is that you can't bootstrap your board from a G3 Mac, but after you do get it booted, everything's OK? Fred (27 years ago, 20-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: downloaded
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I have the same problem too. I sent thousands of e-mail to newton labs without any answer. Could someone help ? Thanks. (...) (27 years ago, 20-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Expansion board test code
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Duncan, The expansion board test code you sent worked quite well, It was very useful in testing and trouble shooting my expansion board. Thanks, Clancy (27 years ago, 19-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Finaly I have got to download pcload in my HB!!!! You are rigth, I´ve load in a Macintosh CI. Now with IC system in the board, I can work in my Mac G3. ?:-( . Fred, thanks for all. I am trying to buy the key password for IC 3.1, but is impossible, (...) (27 years ago, 19-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Download troubles
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Hello I´m a beginner. I have problems download pccode in my HB. I´ve a Mac G3 and I use Init board HB 7.2 modem & 6811 Downloader. I,ve check connections, batteries and the board is in download mode. Bat/pwr LEDs light on (1/3 second) and turn off. (...) (27 years ago, 19-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IR receiver hookup
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Hi all, What is the procedure for hooking up the Radio Shack GP1U52X IR receiver to the digital inputs of the Handyboard?, do I need a transistor between the units output an the HBs digital input?. Thanks, Clancy. (27 years ago, 19-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Expanding the memory of the handyboard
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We used OEM barcode reader (IS4120-41 scanner decode engine) from Metrologic Instruments, Inc.. The output of this reader is the barcode ASCII format transmitted across an RS232 line. We read this with the handy board's RS232 serial port. You can (...) (27 years ago, 19-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expanding the memory of the handyboard
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(...) How did the board read the barcode label? What equipment/algorithm was used? I've been screwing around with a train, and haven't really had any luck with reading a barcode from the track as it passes over. --- Chris Osborn FozzTexx Enterprises (...) (27 years ago, 18-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Thanks Fred et al...
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My first scratch-built HamdyBoard has passed all of it's tests and is up and running. I've only been looking for something like this for about twelve years, so I'm REAL happy. I especially appreciate the emphasis on both hardware and software (...) (27 years ago, 18-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Pulsewidth Functions
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Does anyone know if you need IC 3.x to run the pulsewidth measuring functions provided by Thomas Hauri?? Joshua Stark j-stark@uiuc.edu Aspiring Computer Engineering Major (27 years ago, 18-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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assuming the battery is not yet connected (which would be the case of you're building the HB and following the directions), the charge LED means that the HB is drawing some current. fred In your message you said: (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I'm just wondering, is the "charge" LED supposed to come on on the I/C board when you're running code on the Handy-Board? I don't think it should, but I'm not sure. Thanks, Rob O' Neill (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC 3.x Reg Code
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Newtonlabs will give you one if you ask them. ic@newtonlabs.com (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 1998 MIT LEGO Robot Design Contest videos on-line
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Hi everyone, Quicktime and RealVideos of this year's contest highlights can be had at (URL) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC 3.x Reg Code
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Does anyone have a temp 3 week reg code for IC 3.x that I could use?? Im having problems loading the frequency measuring routinues provided on this mailing list and I believe it might be because I'm still using IC 2.8 and the routines have been (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Lego 9V motors work well?
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(...) The Lego motors are sized such that they can be "pinned" to the frame of a Lego robot easily. With a horizontal beam beneath the motor and another across the top, a pair of six-unit beams can be pinned vertically to the horizontal beams using (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sonar
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Sure did. I used a ceramic disk capacitor... Hope that was okay to use. I just can't find what the problem is with the ranging board. For all I know, it has never worked. This is my first attempt at using it. There really isn't a whole lot to the (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Expanding the memory of the handyboard
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Dear Fred, The Mechatronics class competition was to build autonomous miniature forklifts that would navigate a complex course. In the course, the forklifts had to identify, pick up, and deliver three. The path that the forklifts had to negotiate (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Lego 9V motors work well?
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I'm curious how you went about securing the motors to your robots. I picked up a couple yesterday, and they do seem to be very good quality motors, but just sticking them on "the LEGO way" doesn't work too well. They keep ripping themselves loose (...) (27 years ago, 17-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expanding the memory of the handyboard
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Dear Kevin, Please forgive this non-answering of your question, but I am curious as to what kinds of hardware projects/software objectives were your students working on when they ran out of 'hc11 memory, and how did they deal with this circumstance? (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | bouncing ball
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Hey! Im a realitivly clueless High school guy. Our Adventures in Supercomputing group is making a mobile robot using a handyboard and 3 or 4 infared sensors. Is tyhe bouncey ball method a good one for having a rover permeate a halled area? the (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Expanding the memory of the handyboard
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A number of students that used the handyboard in our Mechatronics competition needed substantially more memory than the 16,320 bytes currently available. What options are there to add memory to the handyboard? Thanks to everyone who contributes to (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interrupt for serial data
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I have been using very successfully for two months now, the code in the attached zip file. It has Interrupt Driven Transmit & Receive functions, both are buffered. I found the code easy to adapt for my specific task. Messages can be "Canned", Fixed, (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I have been using very successfully for two months now, the code in the attached zip file. It has Interrupt Driven Transmit & Receive functions, both are buffered. I found the code easy to adapt for my specific task. Messages can be "Canned", Fixed, (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Digital input cct
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Hi there, I'm in the middle of building a handyboard and I'm having a lot of problems. I'm on part 7.2 (Digital Input cct) and the testdigitals(); function in hbtest.c doesn't respond to the start button. All the chips and RP1 are installed properly (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: pa7 9600 serial output
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(...) You have to re-write the bit_delay loop to take up four times as much time. Just multiply the delay count value by four, e.g., "LDAB #148". Fred (following is the 9600 code.) * take up 0.1042 millisecs * 208 cycles bit_delay LDAB #37 bit_loop (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | using the MC34064 LVI
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Hello, This is a warning for anyone considering using the Motorola MC34064 to replace the DS1233. I have just built a couple handyboards and I had some problems getting them working. I finally tracked the problem done to the LVI. I used the MC34064 (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Measuring PW
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Has anyone been able to successfully use Thomas Hauri's PW measuring routines?? For some reason whenever I try to load them they crash my IC. Any thoughts?? Joshua Stark j-stark@uiuc.edu Aspiring Computer Engineering Major (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | L293D
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where does the pwm go? ...the "cs" or the "in" pins? ---...--- 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 (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Speech Synthesizers
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I am wanting to add speech to the Handy Board. I am currently looking at interfacing a SPO256-AL2 speech synthesizer chip and have a very limited schematic that came with the chip many years ago. Does anyone have a nice set of schematics for doing (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Infrared port on the HB is not working: need help!
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hello! I pulled out my HB today and rtied playing around with the IR port. it does not work for some reasons. I checked the remotes: they are still transmitting! Here are the steps I took: am I missing a step? 1. loaded sony-ir.icb 2. sony_init(1); (...) (27 years ago, 15-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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