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Hello What is the difference between having a side entry RJ11 or a top entry on the interface board. Are the pins in the same order. Thanks Scott Moore (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: PURCHASE IN MIAMI OR BOSTON (Final Response)
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Hello Peter and all handyboard members, Thanks for all the input about my service. However, we shouldn't waste too much bandwidth on this stuff in this mailing list (Sorry, Fred!). We should focus on discussing the application of MIT Handyboard (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Dumb math question related to Navigation and encoders
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Dear Bob, Trigonometric library functions are available in interactive C. (...) The following functions are available(Refer to IC manual available at the MIT site) float sin(float angle) returns sine of an angle given in radians. float cos(float (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: PURCHASE IN MIAMI OR BOSTON
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This is surpassing, I purchased from Mr Hui. No problems getting it except it sat in customs longer than it took to transport 'cos customs people are idiots. I then sent the whole thing back after a chip failed on the serial board. It was fixed and (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: PURCHASE IN MIAMI OR BOSTON
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This seems strange. I bought my board (assembled) from patrick about 8 months ago. It arrived within about 3 days (to Australia). I was given my own IC keys and registered to my name. Email response was very quick, normally only a few hours, and (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: PURCHASE IN MIAMI OR BOSTON
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Peter- I had a similar experience with Hui. Our HandyBoard kit arrived probably one month after confirmation was received from his store. We did not find any parts missing, but there was another deal with Hui's kit. There was a little note attached (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: PURCHASE IN MIAMI OR BOSTON
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Mabey Hui has become better then when I bought mine. But when I bought mine it took forever to get here, when I eventually got it the box was it extremely poor shape. I sorted all of the parts for assembling the HB and I found some of the parts (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interative C on 8086
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I unearthed a post by Randy Sargent from 1996 -- (...) Sorry to trouble everyone! (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Interactive C on old 8086 machine
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I'm having trouble getting Interactive C to run on an old 8086 machine. No messages of any kind, the program just quietly exits back to DOS without doing anything visible. (The same binary normally on a 486). Does the DOS version of Interactive C (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE:PURCHASE IN MIAMI OR BOSTON
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I too have purchased a Handy board from Patrick Hui and was more than happy with the quality of the product. I experienced no difficulties getting it set up and the accessories included in the package were helpful. The only difference I am aware of (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Purchase in Miami or Boston
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(...) Yeah, the HB and sensors that Patrick Hui sent to me worked great, too. Not only that, but he promptly answered my questions via e-mail. I haven't dealt with Gleason yet, but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Mr. Hui. -- Will , , __@_/ \_@__ |/ (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GP2d02 Problems
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as was mentioned, problems loading ICB files are usually due to bad linefeeds. there is a FAQ entry on this, which explains how to solve it: (URL)Greetings all! (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: GP2d02 Problems
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Ryan, Well, it worked for me... Which version of IC are you using? I'm using the Newton Labs IC version 3.1 but as far as I know the program should work with all of the versions. If you tell me what you're using I'll fire that version up and try it (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: GP2d02 Problems
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Have you openned the files in a simple editor (I use BBEdit)? If not, try openning them and check what is at the end of the program lines. Sometimes, pending on how it downloaded, it will have "squares" at the end of the lines representing (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Purchase in Miami or Boston
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Peter, I've recently bought a Handy Board kit from Patrick Hui in Hong Kong. Contrary to your experience, I was very pleased about the quality of the parts Patrick sent me! Also, his price was very competitive to Gleason's (which was the reason why (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | GP2d02 Problems
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Greetings all! I just got the Sharp GP2D02 ir distance sensor and I got it all hooked up the way that Barry Brouillette's tutorial explained, and I downloaded the new expansion board drivers, but when I went to load the Barry's IR drivers, it gave (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Dumb math question related to Navigation and encoders
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(...) This is actually a very good question. Generally, math function libraries use what is called a Taylor series expansion of a trigonometric function to return an approximation to the function with arbitrary precision. The more terms from the (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HC11 Math Libraries?
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Anyone know which of the following are the most bug-free? All were found at the Motorola ftp site: float11.arc fp11.asm 01/22/1986, R. Soja gmath.asm/gmath.lst 12/30/1988, James Shultz hc11fp.asm/hc11fp.doc 12/04/1995, Gordon Doughman HC11FP11.asm (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Purchase in Miami or Boston
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Gleason Research is a very good distributor of HBs. I have bought stuff from them before and I was very pleased. I wouldn't buy it from Patrick Hui, I was very displeased with the quality of the parts he sent me. -Peter (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Navigation & Encoders
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(...) Dear Andrew, You want the angle that line joining G and P make with X axis. That is arctan of the slope of the line from P to G. slope =(yP-yG)/(xP-xG) hence, theta = arctan ((yP-yG)/(xP-xG)) where P=(xP,yP) and G=(xG,yG) Note that this angle (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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