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(...) I'm sure that would be fine. The important things seem to be the 9.6 volts and the relatively high current capacity that nicads provide. The larger the amp-hour rating, the longer you can go before recharging. -- Will , , __@_/ \_@__ |/ | /__, (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Some Parts
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I read somewhere that someone was selling the "hard to find parts" of the HB including the DS1233, HC11, motor controllers and an LCD. I can't find it now... does anyone know of such a thing??? It would help. P.S. - to anyone who is considering (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Dear Capt. Rutledge, Your ideas sound very interesting! May I suggest that you join the following mailing list. It's a hotbed for this sort of discussion: (URL)Dear Professor Berg, (...) ***...*** Robbie Berg Department of Physics, Wellesley College (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Is it ok to use a 9.6 volt 700 mAh RadioShack batttery instead of the 500 mAh battery specifed in the instructions?? (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi all, Iam trying to make up my mind on which type of motor to use on my robot, I have got two stepper motors with built in quadriture encoders and also two 12v 2amp D.C. motors with gearbox's. I have made a test bot built from Lego with two 9Volt (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) My IC 3.2's do not include the smooth PWM but the code from the handyboard web site works OK. I say "my IC3.2" because although the disc says 3.2 the handyboard says 3.1. Does anybody know if the bug fix concerning the analog inputs on the web (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello, all: I am having problems downloading the pcode_hb.s19 file. Here's the symptoms... My HB passed all of the construction tests as outlined in the manual, including the DS1233 power monitor. The HB goes into bootstrap mode no problem, but the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Flow Control
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Hi, Does the Handy Board use flow control? Thanks. Cheers, Ron (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | message from france
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Hello, my name is thierry and I am student in a high school of engineers in toulouse in France. I send you this mail because I have a problem to download a program to board with 68hc11a1fn. In France, I bought a book of joseph l.jones and anita (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, I am having problems with one of the converted SPI pins, specifically the MOSI pin. This is what I did, poke (1009, 0x3c); bit_set (1008, 0x08); I then checked the pin with a logic probe and got a low. I sifted through the other pins and they (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | message from france
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Hello, my name is thierry and I am student in a high school of engineers in toulouse in France. I send you this mail because I have a problem to download a program to board with 68hc11a1fn. In France, I bought a book of joseph l.jones and anita (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello, my name is thierry and I am student in a high school of engineers in toulouse in France. I send you this mail because I have a problem to download a program to board with 68hc11a1fn. In France, I bought a book of joseph l.jones and anita (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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From: Hector Noriega Date: 3OCT98 to: makarraj@cse.msu.edu To Integrate Assembly Code into a "C" Program The variables declared here become globals in C. A simple example to double a number entered from a "C" program, multiply it in assembly code, (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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im working on a project for school, a digital oscilloscope for your pc, but im running into some trouble concerning the ADC part of the project, specially with the noise introduced by the ADC itself to the signal being digitized, (im using a Harris (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Using sonar to approximate RADAR?
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Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote: <snip> (...) That ought to work fine, provided the cop is almost directly in front of or behind the "perp"; then no correction for angle is necessary. The Polaroid sonar detects objects within about a 10-degree cone. It (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Cool robot platform and a question...
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Clem, In a message dated 98-11-03 01:04:33 EST, you write: << I started probing around for continuity to try and figure out what's what and I didn't get very far. >> This is the right place to start. If you can see the circuit traces, copy them to a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Dave, I have a line tracker kit and also the IRPD infrared proximity detector kits from Lynxmotion constructed but do not know how to connect them to the handyboard. I contacted Jim Frye with Lynxmotion but he said he was not familiar with the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Thanks to the help of Todd Graham (thanks Todd), I've found a really cool, low cost, RC robot platform. It's the same platform used by USC's 1997 RoboCup entry, the Nikko Hercules! It has 4 hard plastic drive wheels, dual drive motors, differential (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello, all: <DELURK> I've been following this list for some time now, but since I didn't have an HB, I didn't contribute to the discussion. Now, I've just ordered my HB because I plan to start building. But I have a question... I have a model police (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | robot navigation.
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Hi all, My robot has come to the stage where its time to start writing the basic navigation routines. I have two encoders on each rear drive wheel and two caster type wheels on the front.I have been trying to put some basic software modules together (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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