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(...) I use a PC running Unix (ok, a Unix-variant). PC and Unix are NOT mutually exclusive. :-) I agree with the other response: Unix works well. The easiest to learn setup is probably Interactive C on a PC or a Mac. Once you're comfortable with it (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) I use both. I have a couple older Suns on my workbench at home, and I love the big screens. I pretty much write all my code on the suns. When I go to robot meetings, and other places, I have a 286 laptop that I use. That is great because it is (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Will & Keith, The following information is in a file called readme.ic that should be in your IC directory. By Default IC will use COM1. If you need IC to use a different serial port, you can run it with argument like so: ic -port com2 or you can run (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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We ordered a HB the other day but were not sure if we could use unix to operate it as opposed to a PC. My question is: do you have to have PC to operate a HB or can you use unix. Ethan Getz ethang3@hotmail.com ethang@unm.edu (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help needed part III
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Hi everybody, I've received a number of suggestions, from Patrick Hui, Will Bain, Gary Livick, Keith Lectro, Nitin Mangesh and Keith Hearn. Thanks for the support! I've tried the following things: swapped COM1/COM2 ports (I have a PS/2 mouse working (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Dear Gerald, Visit (URL) to learn about serial i/o between PC and Handy board. Yours sincerely, Nitin (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Dear Katz, Include the name lib_hb.icb in lib_hb.lis.(NOT the whole file) If you check the listing you see that lib_hb.icb is not being loaded. The errors are present because these functions are defined in lib_hb.icb. Hope this works. Yours (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help needed!
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If you're having problems getting your HB to work on one serial port but it works on another, you might want to check for IRQ conflicts. By default, Com1 and Com3 both are assigned IRQ3, and Com2 & Com4 are both assigned IRQ4. So if you have a modem (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) DOING! Yeah, now that you mention it, I had the same problem when I got my HB. Took me about a week before I got around to trying COM1. That fixed it, so I left it that way and forgot about it long ago. At the time, no one on the list had any (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I had a similar problem and had to try a different serial port. I have a serial mouse and the board will only work properly in com 1. If I try com 2, I get similar problems to yours keith (...) (26 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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