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I picked up the 20x4 LCD at bgmicro, and it works fine. I have pcode for 20x2 successfully running, simply by re-compiling with the LCD_COLS set to 20. Does anyone have the mods required to support all 4 lines of the display? It looks to be beyond (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Where is dl for unix?
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they're in the IC distribution tar file. see the link for Unix versions at (URL) fred. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | decoupling capacitors
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If i'm not going to use a separate power supply for the motors, it is advisable to use decoupling capacitors, right? what type of capacitors, what's its ratings (10uF or 1uF or?), and between which terminals should i connect it to? please reply (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Where is dl for unix?
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Hi, I need to get the dl program to load the bootstrap code on my handyboard. I seem to remember that it used to live on the handyboard site with the contribution code, but I've pretty much had a look everywhere and could not find it. Anyone knows (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | please delete "Pretty Park.exe"
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hi everyone, some bozo sent us spam with a virus on it. make sure to delete "Pretty Park.exe". i'm reporting the spam. it's a little confusing 'cause in the copy we received, it doesn't have handyboard@media as a destination anywhere. if spam (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: servo control
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Kah, Reply to 1. Go to the HB site and under the software FAQ "IC Won't Load my ICB Files", download the 'i2u.exe' file and use it to strip the CTRL-M from your files. See if this helps. Good luck, (...) Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | memory
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a quick simple question: if i have to reload the pcode_hb.s19, do i need to delete the one which is currently on there? i tried reloading the file without deleting the old one but it said that the port cannot be opened. is that a connection problem? (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | servo control
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Hi, can somebody help me with my problem, please? 1. the 'servo_a7.icb' and 'servo_a7.asm' files have been downloaded from the Handyboard page and they are free of Ctrl M's or Ctrl J's. however, when i try loading the 'servo_a7.icb' file, i get (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Problem worked out
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Well, I haven't figured out what is wrong but I've worked around my serial problems. For the record it was mostly a problem of cables. I was using a DB25 M to F rs232 cable and that didn't seem to connect correctly. I was using a male to male (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Serial hookup follow-up
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Oops. I realize I didn't provide much info in my previous post so I'll try more explicit. I've built the entire charger/serial interface unit and was following the final debug steps but was stopped at the last step of 3.2.2 in the assembly manual. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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