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Bill ... For spare batteries, take a look at B.G.Micro's BAT1024. They are two AA cells in series, 800mAh ... 10 batteries (20 cells) for US$5.95. I've made several spare HandyBoard battery packs using these cells ... and they all work great. (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Excessive clutziness when replacing the NiCad battery
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Hello, everyone: Many thanks to Chuck McManis and Nick Taylor for posting the simple and elegant solution to my problem: install an inline plug Gee, I wish that I had thought of that!. Thanks for the help. Bill Bynum (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | H-bridge chips
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1. Two quick question, when i type 'ps' at the C prompt, i always get the following: PID STAT PC SP ORG Tricks Executing 1 20 c200 fe01 fe00 10 <command line interaction> is that there becoz Interactive C is running or is that something else? 2. my (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Excessive clutziness when replacing the NiCad battery pack
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Hello Bill ... Here is what I've done on both of my HandyBoards and it's given good results. Cut the leads between the board and the battery pack and add 2-pin polarized connectors. Good luck and have fun, - Nick - (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello, everyone: I'm having problems when I replace the HandyBoard's NiCad battery. I have probably replaced around 10 battery packs by now on different HandyBoards. On 4 or 5 of the replacements, I end up having to replace the 74HC373 latch, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I'm encountering a synchronization error when calling serial_putchar within a for loop. Here's my code: void test(){ int looper; for (looper=0;looper<16;looper++){ if (looper<7){ serial_putchar(analog(looper)); printf("\nPort: %d Value: (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Another chance for the LM35
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(...) Well, di you try to put an Operational Amplifier mounted in voltage following? +Vcc --- Op. Amp. | *-------* LM 35 O------|+ Vin | | | Vout|--\----- To 68HC11 Analog Port --- /-|- Vin | | GND \\\ | *-------* | \---...---/ Florent (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Does anybody know whether it is advisable to control a 24VDC stepper motor using the handyboard's motor outputs (11V)? also, what's the maximum phase current the motor can have to be compatible with the handyboard? (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Does anybody know whether it is advisable to control a 24VDC stepper motor using the handyboard's motor outputs (11V)? (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IR files and sensors
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Two question i have: 1. On the Handyboard webpage, there're the files for the IR Remote Control software. it's a little long and complicated. i'm purely interested in activating the output ports and modulating it to transmit the 40khz signal and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Another chance for the LM35
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Hi, I'm again trying to connect the LM35 from National, there was some posts in the list, but none of that solve my problem. As an introduction let me say that the sensor provides an output of 10 mV/ ° C at 10 mA, the conversion when reading it (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC Technical Support problem
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Hi! I bought my first handyboard in mid October and a Rug Warrior Pro in early November. And since I have had this peculiar download problem with the IC 3.2, pcode will download without any problems but everytime after downloading the lib files, IC (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: strange TS-53 servo problem
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Hi ... It sounds as though you are obtaing the power for your servo from the HandyBoard's motor output pins ... and if so, this is the source of your problem. The HB does NOT control motor speed by varying the DC level ... it uses PWM to reduce the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | strange TS-53 servo problem
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Since the output ports for the motors of the handyboard supplies 11V, i connected a 5V regulator to power my servo. i have a capacitor between the driver's + and - terminals. I looked at the control signal on the oscilloscope. The duration of the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Virus
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Hi - Yes very well said -- on top of that HE may have been infected and we were the result of that infection. Sure can't see a guy putting out a virus with his name address phone and photo on it unless he is some really sick sucker! Regards - Dave (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Suggestions for Virus Management
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Hi - Yes I too received this virus - I did not open it though. We had a copy of it sent to where I work so I knew of it. I hope that very few of you got infected. Regards - Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Evil Mechatron (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | plaintext ettiquette reminder
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Will you people with web-based or GUI-based E-mail clients *please* observe the following plaintext ettiquette rules? (1) turn off HTML (2) turn off vcards (3) turn off images in your .signature (4) don't send any kinds of binary attachments Vielen (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Suggestions for Virus Management
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I'm inclined to agree. These things are not easy to trace. I think this guy was one of those people who wouldn't process the unsubscribe correctly. But, honestly, I can't find his name in my records. So really, I don't know who this guy is, let (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Virus
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kjleeUh, before anyone starts a witch-hunt, I'd suggest you examine the headers a little more closely. The message didn't come from this guy. Even if they did, I still wouldn't send him emails or bother him in any way - it's too easy to fake (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Servomotor
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i'm using digital pin 9 to generate the control signal for my TS-53 servo. however when i try to make it move, it only turns a little bit for the first command but just stops there, the motor continues vibrating though. the idea behind my code: set (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | pcbug11 EEPROM problem
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Hi all, I hope you can help me with this: I am trying to get the talkeree installed on eeprom and when i use these commands ms $1035 0 eeprom $b600 $b7ff eeprom erase loads talkeree $b600 verf talkeree The verifying goes wrong. It bassically tells (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: please delete "Pretty Park.exe"
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Hi - If you got it from a chineese named person it may not have been 'spam'. We got it at work and it wiped out one of our guy's computer completely. I got it from a somewhat familiar sounding name (chineese) but erased it last night because I knew (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Where is dl for unix?
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(...) Another note regarding this: The dl that I'm using is an a.out version rather than an elf executable, and I quite often need to use it on a Red Hat 6.x version of Linux. Red Hat 6.0 and later doesn't have a.out support running automatically, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: pcode for 20x4 LCD
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(...) I think that i can help you. I do have the data sheets of the 'OPTREX DOT MATRIX LCD MODULE' It contains 47 pages,but i can filter the most interesting ones out for you,especially the ones on how to program the full 80 characters + the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | pcode for 20x4 LCD
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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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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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I checked the archives for this one but couldn't find the response that might fix it so I apologize in advance for the umteenth time at asking this. I'm currently building the HB and have completed the charger board. All the voltages work out fine (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sharp GP2D12 (analog version) troubles
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I have only hooked up one, so I am unsure if there are other traces besides the one for analog5 that are so conveniently arranged. You can study the circuit board photos on the Handy Board site (I think they are in the assembly instructions) and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sharp GP2D12 (analog version) troubles
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Gary Thanks for the info. Is it possible to connect and operate more than one GP2D12 to the handyboard at the same time? I wanted to work with four or more at the same time. Thanks, Terry -----Original Message----- From: Gary Livick (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sharp GP2D12 (analog version) troubles
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Terry, I posted this awhile back. Somebody asked the other day about a problem interfacing the Sharp GP2D12. I didn't see an answer, and I just did it myself and solved the problem, so here is how to do it. For those who don't know, Sharp just came (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sharp GP2D12 (analog version) troubles
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Hello Alex, I ordered two GP2DO2's from www.acroname.com a while back that worked great and am currently ordering two GP2DO12's. Sorry that I cannot help solve your problem now but please post the solution for the mail list when someone responds. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Sharp GP2D12 (analog version) troubles
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Hi Recently Got a sharp Gp2D12 IR ranger , for those who dont know it continusly gives a analog value in proportion to the distance to a object. Problem: When I wired it up I got a constant 147-150 no matter were the object was. Unplugged sensor I (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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