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Thanks for pointing out the 'dead reckoning' thing. I meant 'object avoidance'! Heh, I think I'd better make another coffee run... Gary Livick wrote in message <381762F1.D9E4F391@p...ll.net>... (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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We are attempting to incorperate a speech recognition board with the hb. We have the hb controlling an rc car. We also have the speech reconition board controlling the hb. Here is the problem, the microphone for the speech recognition kit is on the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Of course, if you *really* felt that bad about "pimping," you could've sent that privately and not to the whole list...wink, wink :-) I saw the price of your boards. One word: HOBBIEST I say to heck with the expense of boards, nearly anything (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Yes, you can upgrade your HB to 64K and then use Interactive C on it. After the reset HB operates in a 32KB mode that is compatible with the original HB memory mapping. Your C code, however, shouldn't use the PD5/SS pin on the HC11 as it s used to (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) <blatant self-promotion> I work for ComputerBoards, Inc., a company that makes high quality yet inexpensive expansion cards for Intel platforms. We have just about anything you could need for analog or digital I/O, serial communications, GPIB, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I apologize for the previous mail on the GP2D05 subject. The information I gave was base on my careless assumption (duhh) which was also wrong. Once again, I am sorry for any inconvenience. =o( Rob (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I am using the GP2D02 which is also identical to the GP2D05 except that on the GP2D05 you can manually set the threshole using the built-in trimpot. I am using Barry Brouillet driver for interfacing to the Handyboard/w expansion board and it works (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I have an old 486 laptop and a few motors and sensors lying around...Does anyone know of a DSP board or some other device I could use to interface the motors and sensors to the laptop for real- time data aquistion? (I already have my handyboard (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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If a motor stalls, it draws a lot of current (compared to normal operation). You can measure that quite easilyusing dedicated chip, or by measuring the voltage over a small resistor in series with the motor: if more current is draw, the voltage drop (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Shaft encoders are hard to beat. If the wheels are commanded to turn and aren't, that's a good indication that something is screwy. Plus, if you're doing dead reckoning, you need them anyway so they are already there! Gary Livick (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi all, I'm working on a dead reckoning 'bot. I'm not really interested in what the wheels are doing unless they're stalled. Anyone know any good tricks for monitoring the motor current, or should I go with shaft encoders anyway? Thanks! Paul (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Danny, The Polaroid 6500 is very common, and if you have the expansion board on your HB you have a built in connection. There are drivers on the MIT HandyBoard site. The units are available from Acroname and they also have a good fact sheet. (2 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Yep, I've checked out about every page I've seen on this. I just haven't had the time to do it yet. :| As soon as our competition is over and classes settle down (maybe in 3 years :()) I will get a chance to experiment with it. When will you (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Try the Polaroid sonar sensors available from (URL) HB site has the info on how to hook it up to the Handy Board including the IC drivers. The Polaroid sonar works very well! Good luck, kam (...) ===...=== Kam Leang University of Utah Department of (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I'm designing a robot detection/obstacle avoidance system. And I want to install some Sonar sensor. I'm wondering if anyone would know of any good sonar sensor that can easily be used with the HB and that give good results? Any info on this would be (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Anybody got the GP2DO5 IR module working with the Handyboard (without expansion board) using IC ? I always seem to get a Logic "1" from the detector even if there are no obstacles in front of the detector. Any hints will be greatly appreciated. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I have to admit that I have not actually finished the project, work commitments meant that it was shelved for a while. The easiest way to communicate to the HC11 is to use the software from the HB website that allows you to use one of the pins on (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I am developing a course at SJSU using the handyboard as the microcontroller for a competition being held at the end of the semester. This new course have us build the handyboard from scratch and go through the debugging process. I have help some (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Bill, after unzipping the files, copy all the downloaded drivers into your interactive C Libs directory. These drivers must reside in this directory (drive:\IC\Libs) in order for IC to load them at startup. You will be asked if you want to replace (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: motor current trick
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A couple of easy things that you can do to increase the current capabilities of the motor drivers are: (1) replace the L293Ds with SN754410 chips (available from Acroname), and (2) piggyback one H-bridge chip on top of the other to handle almost (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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