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I need to attach an underwater sonar ranger to the handyboard but I cannot figure out how. Does anyone have any experience with this? One question that I have is if sonar transducers other than the polaroid 7000 unit can be attached to Polaroids (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Analog/Digital IO
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Maxim sells a chip that I have connected to the parallel port on my PC and it seems to work well. I got the design from an article in Dr. Dobbs. The article was on using Linux to collect data. The author of the article has a book which has the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Analog/Digital IO
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Is that how it works? I remeber a time when some students were using a joystick for a project and recall them dealing with some sort of PWM. As to whether they were the joystick position signals, I'm not entirely sure. (...) This message is for the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Analog/Digital IO
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hey -- how about a game card! that gives you digital (joystick buttons) and analog (resistor readings). fred In your message you said: (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Analog/Digital IO
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(...) For digital values, you can use a parallel port card, or even handshake lines on a serial port. For analog, you can again use a parallel port, and hook up an external A/D chip. As long as you're not trying to get too many bits of resolution (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Analog/Digital IO
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I know this question does not really relate to the handyboard, but does anyone know of a cheap PCI or ISA card for a PC to read analog or digital values? Thanks, Mike Reiling (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | stepper motor sequence [DAT]
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hi all i was trying to connect a uni polar stepper motor with the hb. i was using the stepping sequence given in peter harrison page. A B C D 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 This sequence means that each coil will be energised one by one. and at no (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: 12V servo motors
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Since the HB battery is only 9.6 V, a 12 V motor would most likely draw too much current and pop the circuit breaker (or worse). I don't see why you couldn't power the servos with a separate 12 V battery, though. The HB expansion board is all set up (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 12V servo motors
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hi, The HB FAQ says to use 6V servo motors connected to the batt supply with a couple of series diodes to reduce the voltage. can i use 12V servos instead? cheers fazal (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: More servo stuff
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Hi. We have a problem with servo as well. When we test one servo motor, it works just fine. But when we test more than one, the speed of each servo decreases. Does anyone have similar problem? Thanks for your help. Damee Choi (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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