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One manufacturer of such a device is Fascinating Electronics of Oregon. They make a device that hooks to your serial port, you send it "commands" and it answers. The board has a/d inputs digital inputs and outputs a relay output, etc. It works by (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Ed -- there is an old utility, mon.exe, that might work. it's at ftp://cher.media.mit...os/mon.exe there's a cmd line flag to put it in extended memory mode. fred In your message you said: (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Thanks Fred, Yes, we have several working ones that download and boot just fine. In fact we're going ahead with these, but it means we don't have 1 bot per student. Since the download appears to work, and just the boot does not, I'm stumped. It's (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Re: Parallel Port... if you want to see how to get 8 input bits, all straightened out, see: (URL) is also a program called SEEBITS that allows you to easily see all the input bits and set the output bits on and off. I am working on a "Parallel Port (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Handy Board list now a LUGNET newsgroup
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The tail end of my message got cut off. All I wanted to say was, "I think it'll be worth it. Yours, Fred" :-) BTW, one nice feature of LUGNET over handyboard@media is that messages get distributed a LOT faster when they come from LUGNET. Fred (...) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Dear all, As announced, the Handy Board mailing list is now also a LUGNET (LEGO Users Group Network) newsgroup. What does this mean to you? It depends; if you are lazy, it can have no effect at all (maybe this is what you want :-). Or, if you are (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Debugging the memory circuit
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Hi Ed -- it *could* be that the desktop you're using isn't set up right to download to the HB's. do you have a known good HB you can use to test the download? alternately, there are some serial line debug instructions at (...) does not boot (...) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I am currently using my parallel port for the same application. I am not sure how specific your question was, but the output voltage is 5Vdc. However, remember that this is a logic level which means it will not give not give you more than ~20mA ( I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Has anyone tried Jini on HandyBoard? If so, Can anyone send the links for those websites ? Thanks Kalyan Mulampaka Software Engineer e Information Services ___...___ (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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wow,i've just had a look at the site and I have to say it sounds very good. When I get some holidays I'll have a look at porting some ic code across and see what I can make happen :-) Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Gasparik (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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