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Does anyone know how I can hook up a microphone to the hb? It doesn't matter if it notices different frequencies so long as it can tell me the volume of the sound. If anyone knows where I can buy the parts I need I would greatly appreciate it. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Using the Lego Rotation Sensor with the Handyboard
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Hi, Has anyone had a luck wiring up the Lego Mindstorms rotation sensor (#9756) to the Handyboard's analog inputs? Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Tom Murphy (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Scientific American Robot Special on PBS
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I live in the Las Vegas metro area, and our PBS affiliate here runs Scientific American w/ Alan Alda on Tuesday nights here. Last night's hour program was devoted entirely to robotics with a long segment on the robot soccer competition. They also (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Scientific American Robot Special on PBS
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I live in the Las Vegas metro area, and our PBS affiliate here runs Scientific American w/ Alan Alda on Tuesday nights here. Last night's hour program was devoted entirely to robotics with a long segment on the robot soccer competition. They also (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard, lugnet.robotics)
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| | SlugBot
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Here's a REAL use for a robot: (URL) Mills, WE7U hacker.NO_*SPAM@tc.fluke.com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: building a remote debugger for win32 -- need help
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(...) Go check out this link. Some of it has already been done for you: (URL) around this site and you'll find other interesting HC11 projects, probably several of which would be of use to you. Curt Mills, WE7U hacker.NO_*SPAM@tc.fluke.com Senior (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: hbtest does not run
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hbtest.c doesn't do anything by itself. you have to run the functions it contains at the IC command line; e.g., testmotors(); . walk thru the assembly instructions for info on using hbtest.c to test your board (URL). fred (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | hbtest does not run
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Hi all, Everything looks normal as far as I can tell. Able to download IC , lib_hb.icb, lib_hb.c and hbtest.c but nothing happens. I can exercise the hb functions individually using IC but hbtest.c does nothing. What could be the problem? TIA John (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: building a remote debugger for win32 -- need help
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(...) Hmm so this means you have the source code somewhere? Is it in C? I don't know anything about Delphi so I'm affraid to look at your code:-) Maybe some of the other guys do, i'll ask around Hans <-- very interested in HBDL (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: building a remote debugger for win32 -- need help
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(...) Ok thnx i will try this. I should note that don't have the exact handyboard. Ours is called the botboard but it's based on the same mcu and works fine with pcbug11. (...) Well we're aiming for a real environment and therefore i think it would (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: building a remote debugger for win32 -- need help
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Hans, What Christopher Prosserhas stated was correct, and this is exactly what Vadim Gerasimov does in his HDBL windows program. And it is also the technique used in my HB_Buffalo downloader program for programming the HandyBoard with a Buffalo type (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: building a remote debugger for win32 -- need help
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I don't claim to be an expert on this, but here are my ideas. To get a clean HB up and running you need to do the following (assuming talkeree.s19 is larger than 256 bytes) 1) Start off by booting the HB into bootstrap mode. This makes the board (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | building a remote debugger for win32 -- need help
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Hi everybody, As a part of a project at my university we're building a crossdevelopment environment for the Windows environment. As a part of this programming environment we want to build a remote debugger. So, we will have to incorporate a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | [OT] Unabashed plug
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This is an anabashed plug for Solutions Cubed ... I'm in NO way affiliated with them ... and I'm NOT a volume purchaser. I have one of their MemKey keypad encoder boards. It failed. I called them and was told to send it to them ... no return (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Using Vector 2X and Polaroid sonar w/ exp board
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Hi, I am planning to use a Vector 2X compass with the Polaroid Sonar and expansion board but not sure about the SPI connection part. Before investing into the compass, I would appreciated if somebody could tell me if they are successful in using (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Time available during 1 kHz system interrupt?
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The controls are spread across a couple of files, mainly in libhb.c we get /* pulse width modulation control: if off, all motors run at full speed if on, speed bytes are used to determine motor speed */ void system_pwm_on() {bit_set(0x39, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Time available during 1 kHz system interrupt?
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(...) Mostly PWM will get jerkier. If you sit to long in there and the motors happen to be 'on' then you can go faster than you would like :-) You also "lose time" in the sense that msleep is no longer accurate so there are issues with tasks that (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Time available during 1 kHz system interrupt?
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Interesting discussion but it raises a few more questions. Are there any (bad) side effects when user code that is inserted in the ISR takes longer to execute than the 1 msec interrupt cycle. From experience it appears that the ISR runs on the next (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help needed reviving my HB
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Hello, Sorry, I made a mistake. "74HC244 was dead" should be read as "74HC373 was dead" This is the one soldered on the board directly without socket. It is located underneath the SRAM. Removing all ICs except 74HC132, 62256 SRAM, and MC68HC11 CPU (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help needed reviving my HB
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Hello Edward and everyone, There are several causes that the Handyboard won't boot. 1) 62256 SRAM was dea 2) 74HC244 was dead 3) The Handyboard cannot put into bootstrap mode You can try to do the followings: Removes all the ICs on Handyboard except (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help needed reviving my HB
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Hi Everybody, Ensio, I'm having a very similyar problem, but with an interesting twist! Check this out! I still don't have any idea what is going on here... None of these have expansion cards. I have 5 HB's from when this robotics class was taught 2 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Time available during 1 kHz system interrupt?
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Hi Greg, It all depends. Various features of the HB can be turned on and off to change the amount of work done in the main ISR. By default the code uses 300ms to execute. The file lib_hb.c provides the following: /***...***/ /*** System Interrupt (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Another Question About making .icb's
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Hey Group, I'm currently trying to get assembly files to work with my HB, i've discovered that the exe I need; as11_hb.exe only runs on UNIX, so you have to use (URL) to assemble the files, which I might say is a little inconvenient. So, where can I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Does ic 3.1 really works properly?
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(...) Looks like it's time for my advertisement: Download HC11 patches for the GCC-2.8.1 compiler from my web page: www.eskimo.com/~archer or from ftp.eskimo.com/u/a/archer. They're GPL'ed, so they're free. Also on my home page is a link to the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Time available during 1 kHz system interrupt?
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Greg, As much as you want. Your program is executed until it is finished, then the system interrupt routines follow, and run until they are finished. Good Luck, Gary Livick (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Time available during 1 kHz system interrupt?
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Does anyone know the approximate amount of time available for user assembler programs which "add on" to the existing 1 kHz HB interrupt? Another way of stating that is...how much time is used by the 1kHz HB ISR code? --greg ***...*** * Greg Starr, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | How can I connect 100 photocells to my handyboard?
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Hi, For a project I'm working on, I need to track the output of one hundred (100) photocells. I don't need great accuracy on any of them, but maybe a ten-step resolution at the most. Is there a relatively standard or well-known method to gather (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Three point targeting system
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I thought of an idea, Im sure has been used before. Where you have three sensors (ie light or ir) equidistant on an arc and they are all pointing towards the center of the arc. So that when they are all the same value the source is both right in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Lost my IC3.2 Key
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Hi, My computer crashed three months ago and I lost my IC3.2 software. I have re- downloaded it from Newton Labs IC page, but I do not have a record of my key. I have written Newton Labs for my key, but they haven't responded yet (actually, I just (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Tx2 and Rx2
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Has anyone worked with radiometrix's Tx2 transmitter and Rx2 reciever???? We are wonder how difficult it will be to use with the HB???? Mike (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Wheels
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Hey Gary, Thank you so much for the wheels. They are grade "A", better than I expected! They arrived yesterday and unfortunately I have to head for Puerto-Rico tomorrow for about a weeks worth of work. I am also posting this in the newsgroup for the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help needed reviving my HB
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Hi! I just got my HB with the I/O-expansion card and the start-up was not as straightforward as I have thought. I don't know if this will help you but ... I'm using a Toshiba laptop with Win98 and found that in order to get the serial communication (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | simoultaneosly driving stepper motors
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Hi, All My name is Pocorobba Tino.I'm 33 y old and I live in Sicily (Italy). I bought a copy of "Mobile Robots:inspiration to implementation" and I studied it deeply. I've now some problems and I hope that somebody will help me!!! I'd like to (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help needed reviving my HB
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(...) These are exactly the same settings that I have, so that is not the problem. Igor (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Starting IC with wizard
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I am not familiar with the "wizard" option. Please elaborate -p -- A healthy mind is an oxymoron! (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Running stepper loop at specified (varying) frequency?
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Greg: You can run assembly from within Interactive C, so if IC isn't fast enough for you, you can build in something that is. However, IC will execute pretty quickly in terms of how fast steppers run, so it could be that IC will work for you as-is? (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Help needed reviving my HB
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Igor: Sounds like you have two problems, with the LCD being a separate one from the sync errors. For communicating with the board via IC.exe, try changing your port settings to 9600/8 data/no parity/1 stop/Xon/Xoff/FIFO buffers enabled. I don't have (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Running stepper loop at specified (varying) frequency?
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I am hoping to control some stepper motors with the Handy Board; I will be wanting to control position vs time. Therefore I will be wanting to send out the step control waveforms at varying times (to modulate velocity). Can this be done from (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Help needed reviving my HB
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Hi HBoarders! Can anybody help me with making my HB run? Following the instructions from the assembly manual, there were no problems until installing the memory. Before it, the serial communication worked fine with hbdl downloading the pcode, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | robotics-for education of learning and injoyment-
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10-28-99 TO WHO IT MAY CONSERN:I AM PERMENTLY DISABLED.BUT I WOULD LIKE TO LEARN HOW TO BUILD A ROBOT.ALTHOUGH I AM WORKING ON JUST THE MEDAL FRAMS FOR 3 DIFFERENT ROBOTS SHAPS TO DEZINES.ALTHOUGH I DONT HAVE ANY BLUE PRINTS ON WHAT PARTS I NEED TO (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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