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  Windows NT experiences?
 
Hi all, I was wondering if people would please "share" their experiences running Interactive C on Windows NT. Is anyone using the old freeware DOS IC on NT? Did you have any trouble getting it to work? Please send to the list, or me privately if (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  Re: Legos
 
the motor is available via LEGO Shop at Home (S@H for short) tel: 1-800-453-4652 there are three kind of motors: #5114 $17.50 (the one that you see in #8270, old style) #5225 $17.50 (the one that in #8735, newer one, with gear reduction) #5119 (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  Legos
 
I know someone just asked this question, but where can I buy just the lego motors, and not the $45.00 set from a toy store. Thanks, Mike ---...--- Mike Reiling macman@inreach.com University of the Pacific Student of Computer Science One tequila, two (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  Re: Include directive, HexMon
 
I had same problem, and found that if you put the include files in the same directory as your file to be complied, and then place the file in quotes (eg. #include "6811regs.asm") it will compile. John (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  Re: serial communications
 
Justin Here is the file. Please feel free to modify/improve. I'm a doctor not a programmer, and I better keep my day job. Notice it borrows Randy Sargent's and Dr. Richard F. Drushel's routines found in serialio.c and math.c, both on the handy board (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jun-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  clock signal needed for decoder chip
 
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)
 
  Re: handshaking
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: LCD Removal
 
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)
 
  Re: any micromice out there?
 
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)
 
  handshaking
 
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)
 
  Re: serial communications
 
(...) 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)
 
  Include directive, HexMon
 
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)
 
  computer crash!!
 
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)
 
  Re: serial communications
 
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)
 
  serial communications
 
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)
 
  DC motors vs. servo motors
 
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)
 
  Re: motors
 
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)
 
  Re: LCD Removal
 
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)
 
  motors
 
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)
 
  Re: LCD Removal
 
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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