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Hello, I just began construction on my Interface/charger board and all of the preliminary test voltages check out as expected except for the voltage at pin 3 of J9 when pin 6 is jumpered to pin 10 of the MAX232 chip. Do you have any suggestions? (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Help needed! Additional info Part 2
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Hi everybody! I've still not solved my problem, but I've been experimenting a bit around while waiting for the 'golden tip' from one of you experienced Handy Board users. BTW: I have not yet received any emails via the mailing list, so I'm not yet (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Best way for HB to communicate to a PC?
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Hi all, I'd like to write some routines on a PC to communicate through the RS232 port to a Handyboard. I'd like to use the Handyboard as the sensor and motor controller and use the Dauphin DTR-1 PC that I got for the navigation and logic processor. (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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(...) ftp://ftp.cmf.nrl.na...l/pub/kenh In fact ... you can't use the MiniBoard library without that cross-assembler (not without some serious hacking). --Ken (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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(...) Nope. Where's your version? If it's easier to use libraries with yours, I'll use that instead. I want to write a Handyboard library when I get the toolchain working (but you know that already). (...) Glad to hear it, 'cuz I'm going towards GCC (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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(...) Okay, is it the one with my hacks, by any chance? You can tell if there's a file called lklibrary.c in the lnk-src directory. (...) "Requires more study". It needs more GCC toolchain mojo than I currently have. (...) That's true, but in a (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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(...) In the xasm/doc directory it says "ASxxxx Cross Assemblers, Version 1.1, June 1990. Submitted by Alan R. Baldwin, Kent State University". I guess that's your answer. Let me know a better route to follow for the assembler/linker please. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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(...) Another question: _which_ cross-assembler does it use? The one based on the ASXXXX cross-assembler (the so-called "Baldwin assembler") or another one? There are some bogosities that I know about with the ASXXXX cross-assembler/ linker. It's (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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(...) Ken's comments made me look at it again: Gcc-2.6.3+HC11 now compiles fine for me on Solaris 2.5, but I know I had trouble compiling it on Red Hat Linux 5.2. I would go back and check that configuration one more time but for the fact that I now (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | GP2D02 and the expansion bd
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I currently use the HB with the Polaroid 6500. I'm considering the expansion board and Barry Brouillette's GP2D02 routines for IR ranging. these routines interfere with the timing of the sonar.c routines or for that matter any other time critical (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | expansion board of rug warrior
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Hi all, I have installed an expansion board on rug warrior. Do I need to download/include any specific library for it or it will work fine with previous libraries of Rug Warrior. Thanks Regards Javaid Iqbal (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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Great, everything I need is there, thanks a lot. ---...--- (...) what (...) nice (...) to (...) student (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | H-board/Expansion board seperate battery question.
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Hello everyone... I have an expansion board attached and working just fine on my Handy board and wish to accomplish the following... Create a separate power source of 12v, using a small 2-4 amp hour rechargeable battery from radio shack, to the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Help
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Hi Friends, i need the most simple circuit for the conection of the hc11, thanks. ___...___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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(...) I'm extrememly surprised. It was sort of a no-brainer when I did it and I've never had a problem on any number of weird systems. Please keep us updated. --Ken (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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(...) At the above link. That one appears to be an HC11 emulator with some nice features. I haven't played with it much yet. I think it might be able to single-step on the target machine also? Go look at the link above, and then knock of a directory (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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(...) 'Cuz I couldn't get it to compile. I suppose I could have tried some other flavors of Linux, or Solaris, but I'd rather start from something newer, therefore the excitement in finding a new port. (...) Thanks a bunch! I think... Once it is (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help needed!
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(...) Marc, First of all, using IC, or probably any form of programming, takes patience. If you mess around with IC3.2 long enough, you will eventually get it to run. Try messing with port speeds, etc. There is nothing wrong with your Handy Board! (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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Excuse me, but I ' ve already heard this "wookie"...so many times, but what is it ? If it's an reditor, can you say me where can I find a copy ? ---...--- (...) Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>; Dave Yoest <dyoest@splat.gsfc.nasa.gov> (...) set (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Java class libraries for HandyBoard
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Thanks a lot, I was just looking for this. Stefano Falconetti ---...--- (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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(...) How come you didn't simply use the 2.6.3 cross-compiler? I doubt the optimizer is improved _that_ much for the HC11. (...) It was a while ago, and I don't remember how much of Carlos's work is left. It all had to be converted to the new (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Help needed! Additional info
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Hi everybody! Will Bain alerted me that I was using the wrong library files. I've corrected this, but am still having the "board not responding" problem! Any help on this is still very much welcome!! Thanks and best regards, Marc msmkatz@wxs.nl (...) (26 years ago, 28-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Polaroid Sonar Device fried!!!!
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(...) The most common causes would probably be: (1) Not having a transducer hooked up when the ping is initiated; (2) Having the flat flex cable plugged in backwards (you can't trust the stripe to be on the correct side! Make sure pin 1 goes to (...) (26 years ago, 28-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help needed!
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MSMKatz wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> Marc, I wonder if the hardware is perfectly ok, but you're inadvertently attempting to load the wrong software. I'm not sure where your lib_hs.lis came from or why IC automatically loads it, but I think it might be (...) (26 years ago, 28-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Polaroid Sonar Device fried!!!!
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The C3279 chip ("Q1") on my sonar device fried. I checked the expansion board and it is assembled correctly. I am not sure why it would fry. I added the 0.1uF electrolytic capacitor to C7 position as stated in the sonar.html site and suggeted by an (...) (26 years ago, 28-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Java class libraries for HandyBoard
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Users interested in running Java on HandyBoard can now download demonstration application and a set of library class files at (URL) Gasparik (26 years ago, 28-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Help needed!
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Hi, I have assembled my recently bought Handy Board kit and have run into major problems: In paragraph 6.0.5 of the assembly manual, the Handy Board is tested for the microprocessor and memory circuits. After powering up the board and running IC (...) (26 years ago, 28-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Handy Board inputs
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Hi Becky, If you are using the HB with the expansion board, you *do* need new library files loaded. Check the web site at: (URL) easiest way to run new library files is to edit lib_hb.lis to include them. To test the HB inputs w/o the expansion (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Handy Board inputs
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Hi, my name is Becky Browning. I am currently working on building a robot using the Handy Board. I am having considerable troubles though getting either the digital or analog inputs to work. Right now I have analogs ports 0 and 1 working with (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | analog inputs on expansion board
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Hi, Two questions: 1) When I plug a Lego reflectance sensor into the expansion board it seems to work fine. When I use the angle sensor it seems to work fine. When I plug them in at the same time the angle sensor stops working. No change to the (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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A great link for people doing HC11 work: www.msoe.edu/eecs/ce.../resources Here they have Wookie, a HC11 simulator for Win32, the WinBug11 downloader, a DOS HC11 simulator, AS6811 and ASLINK (relocatable assembler), and something I've sought for a (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB Memory
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Thanks everybody. (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: [Fwd: Robot Mapping]
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-->Heck, that sounds pretty easy. As long as you know where you start from and you use a cartesian or -->polar form of V=vsub0 + a*t integrated over time, and you are either working in a vacuum or at such low -->velocities that c sub d is (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: [Fwd: Robot Mapping]
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(...) Heck, that sounds pretty easy. As long as you know where you start from and you use a cartesian or polar form of V=vsub0 + a*t integrated over time, and you are either working in a vacuum or at such low velocities that c sub d is negligible, (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | [Fwd: Robot Mapping]
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-- ___...___ Jonathan Pennington -Anthropologist/Geologist -Linux User and Advocate -Bart Simpson Sympathizer Email at jwp(at)awod.com ___...___ (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Robot Mapping
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(...) I've been thinking about this too. The problem as I see it is that without some shaft encoders on the wheels, your robot doesn't really know how far it's moved, and therefore where it is in the map. If you power on the forward motor for 2 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Robot Mapping
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Check this reference out: "Autonomous Agent Map Construction in Unknown Enclosed Environments", Keith L. Doty and Steven L. Seed, Machine Intelligence Lab, DEE, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Chapter 10 of: "Sensors for Mobile Robots, (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help with pointers
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(...) Actually, in 'normal C', to be completely correct you would cast the pointer conversion to show that you really knew what you were doing, like this: p = (char *) &x; Unfortunately, neither the free ware IC nor IC 3.2 support this. Here is (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Robot Mapping
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I would also like to know about this. please cc any info to me too. =) chen (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Sharp GP2D02
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Scott, The reason I wrote mine the way I did was so that I could avoid disabling interrupts for long periods of time. If you don't care about timer interrupts or things like wheel encoders, either program should work fine. My program uses digital 15 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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