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Hi all, The Penn State Fire-fighting robot contest will be held this Saturday (April 4) at 3pm at the Penn State Abington College in Abington, PA (Phila., PA suburb). We are looking for last minute participants and spectators. Great prizes!! The (...) (27 years ago, 31-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Robot Football Competition in UK
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This years Robot Football Competition will be held at the science museum check out this url for details (URL) Barnard cgb@dcs.qmw.ac.uk Department of Computer Science Queen Mary & Westfield College Mile End Road London E1 4NS Tel: +44 (0)171 975 (...) (27 years ago, 30-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Cheap Sonar
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I have a couple of the original sonar modules made by Texas Instruments (I think these are the ones the article is describing) and they work just like the model 6500 ones that Polariod now sells. You can also get them from (URL) connector on these (...) (27 years ago, 30-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: rc servos
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I am currently using an MSCC11 from Novasoft with a program called Servo16 (I actually think the version I am using is called something different but the original program was Servo16). This can control up to 16 servos, the first 12 can be configured (...) (27 years ago, 30-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | rc servos
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I was wondering if anyone has sucessfully controlled more than two servos using the handy board. I was thinking of making a 6 legged walker, however controlling the 12 servos could be a problem. I have seen some basic stamp based servo controllers (...) (27 years ago, 30-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Cheap Sonar
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A while back there was a discussion on cheap sonar. I was wondering if anyone has tried the sonar device from this page (URL) . If someone has tried it, could you tell me what you think of it, and if you ran into any problems using it. Also, I just (...) (27 years ago, 30-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Robot pics
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We have pictures and schematics of our new robot "Betty" on-line. It uses our Finger Board for the controller, a compatible "Handy Board" Embedded Acquisition Systems 1565 Shrader Street San Francisco, CA 94117 WEB (URL) jfong@hooked.net (27 years ago, 30-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Cannot download :(
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(...) I had a similar problem, and while I couldn't exactly fix it, I managed to avoid it as follows: I had a serial mouse on COM1 and the HB plugged into COM2. I could *not* download like this no matter what I tried. So, on a whim, I found a 9 to (...) (27 years ago, 30-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Servos
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Can you hook up RC servo signal inputs to the motor drivers? It looks to be feasable as both require a pulse width modulated signal but I'm not sure if the motor driver's carrier frequency and range of pulse widths is suitable. Any ideas - it would (...) (27 years ago, 30-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Cannot download :(
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hello, I'm having trouble downloading on my Dell 300mhz PII computer but for some reason have no trouble downloading on my old 486dx2 though. I get a "wrong port or board mode message" when I use the HBDL.exe software and a "timeout on serial (...) (27 years ago, 30-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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