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I have been playing with my Handyboard (from Digital), and am still waiting on the little mobile platform I decided to start out on. (My retired father-in-law is a mechanical creator, & is PC literate, so I am planning on getting him involved after (...) (28 years ago, 6-Aug-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Manipulator Question
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Hello, Could someone please tell me if there is a (not-so-expensive) manipulator which can be driven by HB? I'm quite interested in driving the manipulator to draw a text on a sheet of paper. Or, do I have to look for a plotter instead? I'm using (...) (28 years ago, 6-Aug-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: my bot
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(...) Heh, I ripped the front end off as well. Other than that, I did the exact same mods. Wow. :-) (...) I've got the sonar going - it's neat for looks, but I'm still working on putting enough code behind it to make it fast and functional - servos (...) (28 years ago, 6-Aug-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: jbmiller and Hammatzu IR
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Hi Patrick, I assume that you're using the stock S4282/LED setup? It is possible to get better range using a slightly different configuration. The range is largely a function of the the LEDs intensity. Since the S4282 modulates the LED at 1/16th (...) (28 years ago, 6-Aug-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: jbmiller and Hammatzu IR
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jbmiller wrote: I was also wondering if anyone has played with the Hammatsu IR modulator IC, which was recommended to me by Digital Micro Systems (great tech support!!). It's an IC that has all the de/modulation hardware, collector (less emitter) (...) (28 years ago, 5-Aug-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | my bot
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At 12:02 PM 8/5/96 -0600, you wrote: somebody asked me what mods i did to my Cat d-10 tractor. here's what i did. if anyone else is using the D-10, which seems to be a popular platform, please post your mods and it could be a learning experience for (...) (28 years ago, 5-Aug-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interactive C Manual
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Read the online manual and press 'SHIFT' before you click on each link. Thus downloading each as a text file. :-) (...) (28 years ago, 5-Aug-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Interactive C Manual
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Is there a Interactive C Manual for the Handy Board? I saw one but it was Post Script. I need a PDF file. I would like somthing I can download and get a hard copy of. Thank you (28 years ago, 5-Aug-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | PWM Freqs
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I don't suppose anyone knows what the PWM on the HB freqs thru different ranges.... i just need the min/max (0-100) thanks again Jeff (28 years ago, 5-Aug-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Polaroid Sonar, etc
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Hi Jeff, (...) There are no schematics, per se, but there are directions in the cher/.../kent directory. The following excerpt is from the readme file there. It contains the information you need to attach the ranging module to the Handy Board. Hope (...) (28 years ago, 5-Aug-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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