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Did anyone before used PIC with "a" 68hc11 board, to realize a driver or a peripheral device ? Maybe the handyboard does not need it, but other boards like mine...a little different. Thanks for any suggestsions. (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sonar and RF Modem questions
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(...) I am using the expander board, and no, I don't have any extra caps. (...) It looks like a PVC coupler, maybe cut in half. Could be an end cap, but then there would have to be foam inside to prevent ringing. These can be purchased at many (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB to control a TV set and VCR
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Hi everyone! I'd like to control a TV set and VCR with my HB, because I want it to wake me up e.g. with "The Simpsons". So I need some source code to transmit code via the built in IR cirquit. I need to transmit "TV: switch on", "VCR: switch on" and (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Sonar and RF Modem questions
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HB fans, A few questions for ya ... I just received my polaroid 6500 sonar module from wirz. Cool little gadget. I have the HB expansion board from gleason. Installation looks pretty straightforward with the expansion board, since the pins on the (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: gleason research experiences?
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I bought my HB via email and had it at my door in three days. Its likely they got Valentines Day and Presidents Day off. I wish I did. . . shan (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sonar and RF Modem questions
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(...) Maybe a vender could get an eval kit, work through the interfacing issues and kit it for us to buy! That would probably stay within Lynx' licensing agreement and still provide a cost effective solution. Mike (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: RF VIDEO?
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(...) I seem to recall seeing serveral kits that weren't too expensive, both online and at the neighborhood electronics parts store. This would commonly be used to transmit video from a single VCR or cable box to any TV in your house. Mike (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sonar and RF Modem questions
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I've been looking into this also. I purchased the Parallax RF module, which is very simple to use. However, it seems to provide a transparent RS232 interface, more is needed than this, or at least some data buffering. Linx technologies provides a (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Easy communication between HBs
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After struggling with it for many hours I found an alternative to Randy's serialio.c serial communication which I couldn't get working. So I used the Pa7_9600 Baud Serial output from unknown origin (Fred?) ((URL) ial.html). I cut a standard RJ11 (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: gleason research experiences?
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Dear Mr. Puchol, Your order was shipped today via UPS Red, and you should have it tomorrow morning. Please be aware that our policy (as stated on our web site) is to ship orders the business day after they are received. Thank you, Wanda Gleason (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: gleason research experiences?
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[Carlos Puchol] spake unto the ether: (...) We bought about 25 Handy Boards from Gleason Research almost 2 years ago. One of them had a mis-seated MAX232 (or whatever it is) chip on the serial board, so that was the only one that didn't work (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: S19 disassembler
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Thanks, but their s19 converter takes an s19 file as input an outputs a memory image. What I'm searching for takes the s19 file input and outputs an AS11 source file. - - - Nick - - - (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | How to view using GCPREVUE
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hi, i have downloaded GCPREVUE. I have also included the filea in the lists. But i don't know how to then view the layout. pls help. cheers, parag (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: gleason research experiences?
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Gleason Research gets my highest recommendation ... a great product and efficient service. But, I didn't know that they sold the miniboard ... just the HandyBoard and its expansion board. - - - Nick - - - (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: gleason research experiences?
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I too have found Gleason Research to be very good. We burned out an LCD screen and they replaced it for me for free. On my shipment I requested by e-mail the UPS tracking number and they responsed with a day. They don't alwys answer their phone in (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: S19 disassembler
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If you are looking for a *.s19 disassembler you could try the following site: (URL) (it's called a' s19 convertor') G'Luck, Ranjit (...) -- Ranjit Diol - COMPSys Dowagiac,Michigan e-mail: rsdiol@mich.com website: (URL) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Robot base
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If you're looking for a reasonably large robot base, you might want to check out "Toys 'R' Us"; there's a battery powered kid's vehicle called the "Wild Thing" at our local store for $149. It's basically about a 3 foot diameter cylinder about 1 foot (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: gleason research experiences?
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I've bought a bunch of Handyboards and expansion boards from Gleason and have had great service and an excellent product. Barry -----Original Message----- From: Carlos Puchol [mailto:cpg@rocketmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 3:50 PM To: (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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hi i was wondering if anyone has experience ordering miniboards from gleason research. i find it odd that they do not reply to email or phone or messages for an urgent order. did we make a mistake ordering from them? any recommendations? (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Serial Communication between HBs HELP!!! (Again)
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Hi, I am trying to get communication working between two HBs via the RJ11 serial port. I read the FAQ on the HB web site and I have the right cable. On the trans. HB the power LED blinks which indicates it is transmitting. Also whenever I turn on (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | S19 disassembler
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Will someone please point me to an S19 disassember TIA, - - - Nick - - - (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: shaft encoders for a track drive
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Steve Wall wrote: <snip> (...) I've had good results using Hall effect magnetic sensors. I found some 0.1" dia. disk magnets at the hobby shop and embedded them into the holes in some Lego Technic pulley wheels. It's true that only about three (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: sensors
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Hello everyone. =) I'm currently doing research on sensors for a robot my team is building. are there such things as color sensors? any other sensor recommendations would be appreciated =) chen (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | unsubscribe
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I would like to unsubscribe the mailing list Thank you (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Motors start when reset
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Every time I reset the board, the motor port LEDs light up, if a motor is connected to the motor ports, the motors turn on. This happens until the reset is complete and I hear the beep sound. Is there a way to prevent this? Regards, ...Ameen Suleman (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: shaft encoders for a track drive
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(...) Depending on how your tracks are constructed, if they have holes or slots that light can pass through you can use the tread directly in place of the encoder wheels. Get some detailed information on how optical encoders work, understand it and (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | GREEN MASKING
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Dear Mr Fred Martin, Green masking files are available in Gerber format (pardon me if the spelling is wrong). We do not know how to open these files. Can you send us detailed instructions on how to open these files. Yours sincerely, Nitin (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Stepper Motor
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Keith, I've succesfully connected two steppermotors from old diskdrives to the HB, one 1.8 degrees and one even 0.9 degrees/step. I found all the info I needed on the internet, and especially www.cctc.demon.co.uk...tepper.htm contains some useful (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | re: stepper motors
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I have worked with two kinds of stepper motors with the handy board. One pair was purchased from LMDC. These are Astrosyn miniangles stepper motors. These were big heavy duty stepper motors. The other pair was from old 5 1/4 inch floppy drives from (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Kent Farnsworth's MS-DOS port of pcode
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Thank you ... this is the link that I couldn't find. ftp://cherupakha.med...-c/ms-dos/ - - - Nick - - - (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: shaft encoders for a track drive
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OK, now I too have my handy board, it's italian, not just the same, but has a 68hc11, and all those other thinks that make it just quite the original one similar to this. It will be interesting to see if we will can have, a day or another, a new (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Kent Farnsworth's MS-DOS port of pcode
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Please help ... I've misplaced the link to download Kent Farnsworth's pcode source for use under DOS. TIA - - - Nick - - - (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: shaft encoders for a track drive
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Hi. We built encoders for a skid steered wheeled robot. There is a picture of it at: (URL) used an IR Led and reciever pair, and a white disk with 24 radial black lines, and had pretty good luck with the encoder, but bad luck with the info gathered. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | shaft encoders for a track drive
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Has anybody out there constructed shaft encoders for a track driven MOBOT. If any body has I would appreciate any help you could give me. I wasn't going to use shaft encoders but I guess they are needed for many things correct? Is there anyway to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion board & V2X & sonar
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re: exp bd SPI pins: * 2 of the pins are used by the sonar and aren't separately available. * the other 2 SPI pins are at PCB holes J20 and J21. see the schem for details: (URL) you need all 4 spi pins for something, leave out the j11 sonar (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion board & V2X & sonar
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(...) I am the guy who wrote the V2X code that is on the HB web site. I just got an expansion board, and am looking into v2X and sonar on the exp board right now. (...) I cannot find where there are pins for the SPI port on the expansion board. Yup, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GREEN MASKING
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you need a gerber viewer program, e.g., GC-PREVUE from (URL) your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion board & V2X & sonar
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Hi Fred et al. I am doing a project with a six legged robot in which I would like to use the Polaroid 6500 sonar and the V2X compass AT THE SAME TIME. Since the SPI port D is tied up by the compass, I was wondering if directly connecting the digital (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Expansion board test routine
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Hello all, Well here it is, for what it's worth. The functions are pretty obvious, it works just like the original hbtest.c that Fred wrote. To try servos other than #5, you'll have to edit the line: servo5=(16*knob()); In the test_servo() routine. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion board questions
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(...) Terry, I will send you the code. I sent it to Fred for the website but haven't heard back. I'm reluctant to post it to the list, but I will mail it to anyone who asks... Best, Duncan (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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