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(...) Thanks for your response. When we load the pcode_hb.s19file with the right CONFIG it seems to load properly. We then turn the HB off and back on and try to load the Interactive C. This does not work at the computer says "attempting to linkt to (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | infrared distance sensor
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Hi, I've just received a Sharp Digital Infra-Red Ranging System (GP2D02) and I'd like to connect it to the handyboard. The device clocks the data in on a digitial input but requires the clocking pulses to be no longer than 200 microseconds. This (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB Expansion kit
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---...--- (...) Yes (...) ----6---J2-19 pin ,J19-two 4 pin,J6-4 pin,-one 14 pin for the LCD,-one 4 pin lower r.h. over digital 0,1,2,3. on the hb. All go on the outer edge of the board except J19. Hope this helps, I was also pleased with the kit (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: ** voltage dropping and current limitting**
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(...) Well, just off the top of my head, when you say "get 16 vac out" how are you determining this, a volt meter set for "Volts AC" or some such? Not, say, an oscilloscope? You will note that almost all meters render "AC Voltage" as the RMS (Root (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Earlier DL post
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Fred- Thank you-it helps when you put the libraries that won't load into the right folder. I shall take up with Newton Labs why the HB won't talk to the HB and says out of date 2.81 code is out of date. Thank you again for all your help. Cappy (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | DL with a Mac
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Fred- Thank you for the new version DLoader MCL. I can now indeed load the P- code. Useing this Mac 6500 Apple talk off-printer port-I am still finding odd things-very odd things. A week back-I replaced the hex inverter, memory chip, & U6. Now-after (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | More information for debugging my problem
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I'm the one with the dead HB. When I look at R14 (next to the SPI header) it is black and is very hot. Do I have a dead resistor? Thank You Peter Eacmen BLS petereacmen@usa.net (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | URGENT Please Help my HB is dead :=( !!
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I had my robot in a box for about two weeks when I went to turn it on the battery was dead. Now when I turn it on nothing happens the LEDs don't go on and nothing happens, except I can smell burning. When I touch the 6811 it is a bit warm but not (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello, I know that this is slightly off topic, but does anyone know of a company that sells a stand-alone sonar ranging unit that works from 0" to 20"? i know that poloroid makes the one made to be interfaced with a microcontroller, but do they make (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: ** voltage dropping and current limitting**
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I have a transformer, when powered by 110 vac I get 16 vac out. I put it through a bridge rectifier and the problem is when I put a cap say 20v 1000uf across the + - of the rectifier, the voltage jumps to about 20 vdc. If I omit the cap and attach (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Green mask
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please see (URL) all there in the zip files, including the solder mask (green) layer. f. In your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Green mask
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I would like to get a set of Handy board PCBs done. I have obtained the diagrams of the PCBs from the handy board site but I need to get Green masking done due to the intricate design but I haven't found the greenmask diagrams on the site. If (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 6811 Downloader MCL, version 1.1
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hi cappy & others (sorry non-mac people), i've put up a revision of the Mac 6811 Downloader MCL. this version checks that everything's copacetic before dumping the .s19 file into external RAM. in other words, it checks that the desktop is properly (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Mac DL problems
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ok, i think you've established that the hardware is working properly. the fact that you can get IC to boot and talk to the board is strong proof of that. the zterm test demonstrates that the mac can send chars out; the IC example proves (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Mac DL problems
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Fred- Per your suggestion because I am having trouble DLing to the HB to my HB thru my printer port with Apple talk off-I DLed ZTERM, set the baud rate to 300 and watched the green light blink every time I hit a key on the Mac. A few oddities- The (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: navigation alorithm
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*Robot Science & Technology* is a fairly new magazine, and I give it my high recommendation. Issues 2, 3, and 4 contain a series, "Popular Micromouse Algorithms", by Tak Auyeng, PhD. Lots of good info for anyone interested in the IEEE Micromouse (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Polaroid 6500 - HB/ExpBrd problem
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I assembled the expansion board and tested all I/O ports. Everything checks out fine. I have the 6500 sonar module with the flex cable. After loading 'sonar.c', I tried the 'sonar_display()' function. The transducer came to life with its 'clicking', (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion Board Files
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Thanks Fred and you too Ranjit, I have just now got my board to accept the expansion board files. I reloaded the expansion board zip files,installed in ic but still would not load. It did not give a error message for the expsens.c file but did for (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: executing instructions quickly
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(...) If your macro just calls the "move" routine it will make absolutely no difference because your are in effect typing in the above anyway. If your macro inserts the code for "move" inline rather than calling it it will be only very slightly (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: navigation alorithm
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An article on the magazine, _Robot Science and Technology_ (relatively new publication), describes the micromouse competition and algorithms for maze solving. You can look up the HP somewhere and maybe get a back issue or something. I forgot which (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: resistor packs and expansion board.
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I just saw the following: The artwork on the schematic sold by Douglas shows that RP1 is a 1Kx7 where as your schematic and parts list shows it to be a 1Kx4. Response from Douglas: I do not know where that information came from. The list we (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Native 68hc11 C compilers
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I definitely would be interested in hearing more... (...) I have had excellent results with the Introl C compiler demo. In fact, the demo has more than enough capability to do some very interesting things. Just for the fun of it, I wrote a (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Wireless communications
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Hi all, Lately, there have been a few questions on wireless communication between a handyboard and a PC. I knew Jan Sipke van der Veen had designed a something that would do just that, but I found his homepage was removed - he graduaded from (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | resistor packs and expansion board.
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Fred, I thought I found a minor mistake in the parts list for the expansion board. But I now believe I didn't. The artwork on the schematic sold by Douglas shows that RP1 is a 1Kx7 where as your schematic and parts list shows it to be a 1Kx4. Since (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Native 68hc11 C compilers
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(...) I have had excellent results with the Introl C compiler demo. In fact, the demo has more than enough capability to do some very interesting things. Just for the fun of it, I wrote a multitasking operating system and some basic libraries for (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | sonar
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hello, I use program "sonar.c" and i have a problem. that is i run program (load sonar.c by ic.exe then type sonar_display(); ) to handy board,for measuring distance between 6" - 35" but the display (LCD )shows integer(number) between 0- 32767 ,that (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | executing instructions quickly
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Just a quick question with regards to executing some instructions quickly. I'm using the pa7i9600.icb file to control a couple of mini SSCs, and I need to move 6 servos as close to simultaneously as I can. My question : is it faster to write a (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB Expansion kit
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(...) yes. this was omitted from the assem instrcts and i've added it now. (...) look at the parts list for things that are referred to as "xx-pin male header". these have a part number; e.g., J3, a 14-pin male header. look for J3 on the PCB (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: ** voltage dropping and current limitting**
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(...) Look in an older edition of The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill. They use the LM317 as an example voltage regulator, explain the resistor values, and provide a data sheet in the appendix. This is a very useful reference book for all (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion Board Files
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Yes, I had a similar problem. I then downloaded the revised files and found "lib_hb.c" failing to load also. After opening it in a text editor, I found the same 'line feed' type of characters (square boxes). I deleted them and made sure that all the (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion Board Files
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I downloaded the revised files and found "lib_hb.c" failing to load. After opening it in a text editor, I found the same 'line feed' type of characters (square boxes). I deleted them and made sure that all the comment lines ( /*.........*/) were (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: a chip question
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(...) Try to get a hand on a nice little internet program named "PartMiner". very very very very useful :) .---...--- . . . | Remi Desrosiers | "My Youth in Arcadia" ICQ# 7228856 | harlock@videotron.ca . remi.desrosiers@polymtl.ca . . (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB Expansion kit
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I received my HB expansion kit from Douglas Inc. (under $30 and fast delivery!). I've tried to gather as much documentation on its assembly. However, I have two questions: 1) The DOT on the resister pak's: Is that the end which goes in the SQUARE (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: ** voltage dropping and current limitting**
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(...) Use an LM317T adjustable voltage regulator and 2 resistors. If you can't find a data sheet on it on the net somewhere, someone should be able to give you the formulas for figuring out the resistors. Find national semiconductor on the net and (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Serial Output Drivers for the Expansion Board
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Hi, Could *each* of the digital output pins on the Expansion Board be used as 9600 Baud Serial Output Drivers ? Could a higer baud rate be used with any of the digital output pins ? Could someone clever than me create the libraries and the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Speech Synthesis?
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Hi, I've been thinking to use a speech synthetizer for my robot as well, (mainly to warn humans to stay away from my toy), and a good solution that I found for the problem is: (URL) here is a decent eval of it: (URL) Philippi. Steve Wall wrote: (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Downloading
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OK, attempting to answer this one now. it is sounding to me like you have a problem with the serial on your 6500, not a problem with the handy board. try this. download Zterm (a terminal emulator) from: (URL) to the printer port (get the option by (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion Board Files
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argh!@ my last email (which may arrive before this one) is in reply to this. repeating it in the proper context: yes, there was a linefeed bug in the expsens.c file in hbexplib.zip. it should be fixed now. please re-download from the expansion board (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Native 68hc11 C compilers
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Dear Graeme, Visit imagecraft.com ,they have got a C crosscompiler for the 6811.I believe that library functions for the handyboard are also available there. Yours sincerely, Nitin (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Downloading
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yes, there was a linefeed bug in the expsens.c file in hbexplib.zip. it should be fixed now. please re-download from the expansion board software page and try again. let us know if this fixes the problem. thanks a lot. fred In your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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