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it sounds like the pcode is going down onto the board, but you may have an open on your lcd header / connector. if you can talk to the board using ic (make it beep or such) then it's just the lcd output. check for open circuits first. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Yet another board
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Chuck, nice dream! I would be in too. But why not design a kind of a extension board which would replace the curend extension board? It would save some money i guess. Thomas. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: something is wrong with my handyboard
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Can you put the board in bootstrap mode? (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | something is wrong with my handyboard
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when I turn on my handyboard, a row of black squares appears on the top line of the LCD screen. I have had friends check for shorts and I have redownloaded the pcode_hb.s19 programs on to the handyboard (as the FAQ part of the handyboard web page (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC Problem
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(...) I had to go RTFM for this one ;-) It says: 5.6 Arrays and Pointers IC supports one-dimensional arrays of characters, integers, long integers, and floating-point numbers. Pointers to data items and arrays are supported. It doesn't say that (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB Serial line speed change
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To add to Martin's question, how can you change the baud rate used by IC 3.x? It's easy enough to alter the speed of the UART by setting the BAUD register or POKEing the relevant location in the pcode interpreter. Randy Sargent's code fragments can (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB Serial line speed change
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Hi! I'm asking this again, since I've got no definitive answer: Is it possible to change the speed of the HB serial line to 19200? I need to communicate with a device which has a fix 19200 setting! Is it possible or can I forget the HB for this (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC Problem
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-- Hello. I hope you can help. I'm using IC 3.1 for Linux and am having a problem with structs. I had code which ran fine under gcc, but ic hates it. I've got an array of pointers to a strct, struct SOFM *ptrSOM[4] and then within the program for (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Difference between TO-220 and TO-220AB
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What's the difference between these two transistor packages. They seem to amount to a significant price difference. Any realizable performace differences between these two? ---...--- ericson mar Robotics Consultant mar@cooper.edu (212)353-4356 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Looking for something
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Does anybody have an idea where I can lay my hands on two L298 h-bridges. I've looked at all the normal elec. supply places and can't seem to find em. I need two. Would appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Quickcam - Sharp LCD - Help
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Ooops ... I gave the wrong URL below (paste error). Should have been as follows (URL) -- Doug (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Quickcam - Sharp LCD - Help
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(...) There isn't a whole lot of RAM and clock cycles to deal with video on the 68HC11. A more reasonable solution would be to use a wireless transmitter to send video signals to a receiver that interfaces to a TV or some other host computer with (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Quickcam - Sharp LCD - Help
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Hello All- Any one have interest in making the B&W (or Color) Quickcam work in with the handyboard? That would be DELUXE. Speaking about the Quickcam, it is possible to modify the camera so that it can feed into a TV? What part is the CCD on there? (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Rules for BEAM competition
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I did some more research (I'v got some time to spare) and came up with this site: (URL) think it's the official site. Also there is a list of other robot competitions at the site (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: MIT Micromouse Rulez!
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The micromouse competition sounded interesting to me and since I had never heard of it, I did a quick search finding the rules at: (URL) questions can be addressed to otten@mit.edu Has anyone in the handyboard forum competed before? -john (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Time Disply
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Is there any way to format the time displayed on the Handy Board screen? I want to display time out to 4 decimal places and no more. Bill Landahl (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: MIT - micromouse rules
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I'll rephrase.... Can anyone give me the link to the BEAM Robot Olympics and micromouse cometition rules and guidelines? Thanks (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Yet another board
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Chuck, I would probably buy it, even for $300. That is if it had all the capabilities you specify and was able to handle all the various sensors and hardware PWM that I currently am working with on the handyboard. Scott (...) Scott Sherman IT Spec. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | MIT - micromouse rules
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Can anyone tell me the link of the MIT - micromouse contest rules. I have them on hard copy but I was wondering if they were on the net somewhere? Sean (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Memory error
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I just assembled my handyboard, but i get some memory errors (almost everywhere, but the addresses vary in some bytes)... i tested two different RAM chips and i still get the errors. They're intermitent (i get many .........'s then many errors, then (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC Code Site Address
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(...) That was stupid! Glad I checked my email before I left. (URL) will be at /IC/code Sorry all. It was past my bedtime (10pm, not a word) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC Code Site is Up
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(...) What's the URL? (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC Code Site is Up
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OK, I've done it. I've made a site for code and tips. I'll take anykind of code for any board. The site's up, but barren. I'm leaving town tomarrow, and don't have enough time to get any code listed. I wanted to get it up so everybody can look at (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Servo?
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Use the servo code on the handy board website. Then connect the yellow wire to digital input 9, the red one to logic power (+5V) ,and the black to motor ground. (...) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...-=-=-=-=-= Music is well said to be the speech of angels; (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Servo?
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Hello guys. I'm new to this stuff so please help me out with this. I want to wire up two servo motors to the handy board. There are three wires to the servo motors. A red wire for 4.8 - 6 vdc, a black wire for ground, and a yellow wire for a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Yet another board
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(...) what page was that greg??. url pointers please. thanks aaron. (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Subsumption Architecture
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Hi Lisa, Thank you for posting the link to the ic subsumption code at (URL) downloaded the code to my handyboard and it will help me toward understanding ic . ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Yet another board
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Hello Everyone, I've had something of a vision, and I don't think it was spoiled food :-) And I'd like some feedback on it. Bear with me, it requires a bit of set up. After working with Handyboards, Miniboards, 6.270 Boards, BOTBoards and other (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Yet another board
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Chuck, you may find this page of interest. UC Berkeley has put a 68HC11 with a Xilinx chip together for their natcar enter.A RC car race sponsored by national semiconductor. good luck!! Greg (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Subsumption Architecture
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Thanks to all (especially Lisa Meeden) for your responses to my request for behavior control help. I'm on my way to learning! Thanks, - Nick - (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | [Fwd: 19200 serial link / IC site]
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(...) Glad you brought that up. I would, of course, take code for the miniboard, fingerboard, etc. I use the F1 board myself. There are enough people out there who like to port things, anyway. I'll start working on it, but it'll take some time. I've (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: 19200 serial link / IC site
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(...) Whoa! Somebody slap me if I'm wrong, but I thought the HB was incapable of using speeds far above 9600. If it's not, then I've been wasting time. The only thing I could think of doing is building a data buffer, but it seems like that would (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Stepper Motor problems
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I can offer that in my C++ course I learned that in order to pass a variable name into the array size declaration, it must be a const int type. Don't know if that's true for Ic, but if it is, you'll be able to keep your cycle_length variable. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB Serial line speed change
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Hi! Is it possible to change the speed of the serial line to 19200? I need to communicate with a device which has a fix 19200 setting! Martin Martin Frischherz frisch@kapsch.net (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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i was wondering if i can use a dallas DS1225ab-150 for my battery backed ram... i found one on my scrap board. thanks (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Stepper Motor problems
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I just got the stepper rountine working in my board this weekend. There were some problems initially. I had to replace the cycle_length with the actual number (4). There were also some errors with variable type conversions, for example FAST and SLOW (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Source for TI SN754410
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(...) I went to www.ti.com and got three of them for free. Search around and you'll find that they have samples of some things. I can't remember exactly where, but I found it from the main site. (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Stepper Motor problems
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Hi Again, I've been trying to get two stepper motors to work with my HB, with little success. Firstly the software by Peter Harrison does not seem to compile when I try to load it to the Board. The error is in line 29; " int (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Source for TI SN754410
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Hi All ... Will someone please point me to where I can buy SN754410 chips. I seem to have lost my bookmark. Thanks, - Nick - (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Two 6500 Sonar Module Trouble
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