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[Randy Sargent] spake unto the ether: (...) Sigh. I can't forsee our Autonomous Robotics course buying 15 copies of IC 3.x or greater until it supports case/switch. It's the only feature that our students using freeware 2.81 really complain that (...) (26 years ago, 28-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Resend: problems with main()
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I posted earlier in the week about having a problem with the SRAM. I have determined that there is not a problem with the SRAM on the handyboard. The problem is that "main()" is not executing on reset like it is supposed to. The program that I am (...) (26 years ago, 27-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, There is another way to get the Polaroid sonar unit. And that is to find an old Polaroid camera. That's the hardest part but allot of people bought them and are not using them any more. When you open it up there will be the Sonar board complete (...) (26 years ago, 27-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Phillip and others, To this excellent exposition I would change only one thing: (...) Change this to : "Write this pattern down neatly IN YOUR ROBOTICS NOTEBOOK." One of my professors at school noted that the most important thing he learned in (...) (26 years ago, 27-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Steppr motor pulse problem
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Phillip First step is to put a piece of tape on the shaft so that you can clearly see the shaft turn. Next determine what kind of motor you have (you have probably already done this). Get an ohm meter and determine which wires are connected to (...) (26 years ago, 27-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Philip, are you shure, you have the right pins from the stepper to the outgoing pins from your chip. Have your stepper 4,5 or 6 cables? If you exchange the cables, your stepper motor only do some vibrations or doing nothing. The easiest way to (...) (26 years ago, 27-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: [Interactive C features]
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You can also upgrade to IC 3.1/3.2. Among the improvements include support for multidimensional arrays. -- Randy ---...--- (...) (26 years ago, 27-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) You could use a one dimensional array of length width*height such that: cellMazeWhatever[x][y] is turned into cellMazeWhatever[(x-1)*width+y] (26 years ago, 26-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello All, my name is Marcelo Manjon and i am 5th year graduate student of Mechatronics Engineering at Politechnic School of Sao Paulo University. Turns out that this year i'll be developing a Micromouse Robot using the MIT Handy Board. I have (...) (26 years ago, 26-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Jeroen van der Vegt, Let me suggest some articles. First "Sonars on the Cheap" by Keith Payea page 20 of the Fall 1995 issue of The Robotics Practitioner. This looks lie about a $30 design. Second "An Experimenter's Cheap Robotic Sonar System" by (...) (26 years ago, 26-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB's analog inputs
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does anyone know if the handy board's analog inputs can accept analog current output(4-20mA) from a photo-electric distance sensor? (e.g. the sensor might return 4mA if the object is 1 ft away and 15mA if it's 3 ft away) or can it only accept (...) (26 years ago, 26-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I posted earlier in the week about having a problem with the SRAM. I have determined that there is not a problem with the SRAM on the handyboard. The problem is that "main()" is not executing on reset like it is supposed to. The program that I am (...) (26 years ago, 26-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB's analog inputs
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(...) Edmund, Typically the solution is to pass the 4-20 mA through a 250 ohm resistor and measure the voltage across that resistor. As long as your A/D input impedance is high, it can be ignored. A resistor is essentially a current to voltage (...) (26 years ago, 26-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, I've encounter some problem on using the stepper motor with my self-built driver. I am not using the driver in the HB. I have to build out a driver. The driver chip I use is L298 and logic gate chip is L297 or 374( this chip also use in HB) . (...) (26 years ago, 26-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Digital Outputs
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I have discovered that I can use PA6 as a digital output and am wondering if the same applies to PA3 if I do not require a piezo buzzer? Thank You Joe Martin joema@mpx.com.au (26 years ago, 26-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Infrared Detector
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Mekatronics also sell the GPU58 series detectors -----Original Message----- From: Rick Moll <rickmoll@mvp.net> To: Victor Ruiz <ruizvic@mx1.ibm.com> Cc: handyboard@media.mit.edu <handyboard@media.mit.edu>; Rick Moll <rickmoll@mvp.net> Date: Tuesday, (...) (26 years ago, 25-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: interfacing V2X compass
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(...) I ended up doing the same thing. I appreciate hearing that someone else had thesame problem, and used the same solution. It sure is frustrating that you can't trust the documentation that came with the compass; if you need to reset the thing (...) (26 years ago, 25-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Rick, I had the same problem. Also the compass would occassionally lock up and require a reset. I tied the reset pin to a digital out and added a routine to take all the necessary pins high and then cycle the reset pin. I reset on initialization and (...) (26 years ago, 25-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Infrared Detector
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(...) The most common metal can IR detectors are made by Sharp. The older ones I have are marked GP1U5X2 (with pins coming out the back of the can), but the newer ones I have are part number GP1U58Y (and have pins coming out of the bottom of the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB 4 sale
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I have an assembled Handyboard and MIT's 6.270 board for sale. Both boards work great. 125 ea or 200 for both. Reply to this email (26 years ago, 25-Aug-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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