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the label on the diagram says "cut motor trace here" with an arrow that points to a dark band. if you look at your HB, it won't have a dark band. that's where you need to cut. slice through the green-coated trace where that dark band on the picture (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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dear readers and fred, i read the instructions on the website on how to use external battaries. the problem is: - in the website, i couldnt see the copper trace properly which we need to cut in order to use the external batteries port. could any one (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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try running the servo off of a separate power supply; e.g., 4 AA cells. you'd connect the servo red wire to the battery + lead, the servo black wire to the battery - lead, and also connect the battery - lead to the HB motor ground. in general it is (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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We have developed a library of functions so that one can write HB-style code and run it either on the HB or compile it with the library and run it on a PC. It hasn't been thoroughly debugged, but works consistently (There are some timing issues that (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi all, Does anyone know how to get a the interrupt line on the handyboard. Been looking at the documentation, and was a bit surprised that the interrupt was not available. Am I missing something? Charles Hacker Lecturer in Electronics, Computing (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Has anyone built robots for the trinity fire-fighting contest. I would like to hear your design and what kind of major problems that you encountered in building it. A website would be great. The reason for my interest is that I need to include any (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I could really use some help connecting a Futaba 3101 microservo. I bought the micro servo to reduce the weight instead of the standard S148 servo. Anyway, I connected the red line to the HB +5V supply on the SPI expansion header. The black wire to (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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If you use icc11 (a cross compiler, not an interpreted compiler) for the handyboard (they have a library for controlling the handyboard) then printf() calls write to the PC and lcd_write calls write to the LCD. --Chuck icc11 is available from (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Fred and other, I intend to use grandcell rechargable batteries to supply the HD. Each battery is 1.5V . If I supply 7 batteries of total 10.5V to the HD , is there any problem ? rgds, phillip (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Dear Friends, In Interactive C,the printf statement writes messages to the LCD screen.Is there any way by which we can write to the monitor screen of the computer from which the programs were downloaded? Yours Sincerely, Nitin (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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