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Hello, I am hooking some HP decoder chips to the handyboard. They are HCTL-2020's and they decode a motor position encoder signal. My problem is that I need to hook one of the pins on the 2020 (the CLK pin) to a clock. I'd like to get ahold of the E (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Regarding your earlier message, if you're just wanting to talk to a GPS, then you don't need handshaking, because I haven't found one yet that supports it. It is a simple three-wire interface to most GPS's, TX/RX and Ground. They don't support (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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All pcodes shipped with IC 3.1/3.2 are designed to work fine either with or without LCD. Prior to 3.1, you have to build a pcode specially to disable the LCD. -- Randy (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Brian, Several of my Penn State Abington freshman and sophomore engineering students constructed a working micromouse from LEGO and a HB. The approach was a vehicle that can only move in the north-south or east-west directions by alternately (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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could you please explain to me the details of handshaking? i need to understand this before i can go any farther. exactly what is transponded during this? and how is this implemented thru assembly language? thank you. Justin D. Gullotta.. , (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) I too have done this, with both a Garmin GPS-II+ and a Garmin GPS-35PC. I have posted segments of the code necessary to do this to the Handyboard list before, so if you look through the archives and grep for "WE7U", you should find them. If (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello, I've been trying to compile .asm files using as11.exe. The files I received with my copy of IC contain the #include directive. Does anyone know of a copy of as11.exe that supports this? If I use as11_ic.bat, to build an *.icb file, the gcc (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | computer crash!!
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Could someone please help me get my handyboard to communicate with the computer?? First, my computer crashed, the hard disk had to be formatted,windows 95 reinstalled, ic3.2 reinstalled. I was communicating with the handyboard thru com 4. When I (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Justin, Interfacing a GPS to the handyboard is straight forward. Most GPS receivers comply with the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) standards. They transmit their information in ASCII "sentences" which are framed by a $ at the (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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i have been looking thru the libraries that people have posted on the web, particularly the ones that allow serial communication. i am not sure how the system works, but there are numerous routines which turn handshake on and off, as well as (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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The nature of the PWM (pulse width modulation) is entirely different for servo's vs. plain DC motors. For a DC motor, it has a two wire connection. All drive power is supplied over these two wires -- think of a light bulb. When you turn on a DC (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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For servo, there is a certain threshold duty cycle (say 50%) of the PWM signal, where anything above this threshold will make it to run forward, and less will make it to run backward. So, you still need to apply the PWM even if the servo is not (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello, Does anyone know if the Rug Warior Pcode run without the LCD? (Pcoderwl.S19) If not : 1 is there another RW pcode that will run without the LCD? I using the RW pcode on my Fingerboard II with out the LCD and I think this may be an issue. (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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That did answer my question. I am not familiar with servo motors, I have only used plain DC motors. I am also familiar with PWM. I was just unable to determine if the same PWM signal that drives plain DC motors could also drive servo motors. From (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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it's easy: just use the replacement pcode_hb.s19 file provided by Kent Farnsworth: (URL) your message you said: (...) and still have the HB work. My design does not require the LCD, so if i could r emove it my robot would then be a little more (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) As I've said, I think the new Lego Technic gear motors are a great deal. They're inexpensive (about $18 each), they seem to be quite efficient, and they run well directly from the HB power supply. If you're building your robot out of Legos (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I was just wondering if there's any way to disable and remove the LCD screen and still have the HB work. My design does not require the LCD, so if i could remove it my robot would then be a little more balanced. Every time I remove the LCD my (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) What you have is most likely a 9V DC motor, not a servo. As far as I know, there is no such thing as a Lego servo motor. The four-contact plug is a Lego standard that allows changing the polarity simply by rotating the plug 90 degrees. There (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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i have a motor that is manufactured by lego, and has a 4 pin connector which is in the shape of a lego block. i am new to lego robots, so i do not know what the various parts look like exactly. the motor that i have is about 1.25" cube, and seems to (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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This subject has most probably been discussed numerous times but I'm kinda new to this mailing list and the Handyboard so bare with me. What are the pros and cons of using Lego motors to drive a robot project that I have in mind ???, should I scrape (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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