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Yes, there is a way. Check out the serial servo controllers at (URL) one of these that you use controls up to 8 servos, and you can chain a bunch of them together and go servo nuts. -- Will Bain P.S. -- I haven't yet tried these myself. I'm curious (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Problem on loadind Expansion board files
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The problem is simply that the new expansion board code supercedes a couple of functions in the old lib_hb.c (and possibly in lib_hb.icb, too; I can't remember). If you go to the HB web site, you'll find a new version of lib_hb that's compatible (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Whatever portion of the 40 mA that the HB requires for it's operation will "float over" the battery pack and be consumed by the board. The rest goes into the battery to recharge it. I haven't measured the current draw of my robot, but of course your (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I understand that a handyboard in combination with the expansion provides a total of 6 servo motor controllers. However, I need 12 controllers. Is there any other ways to achieve this other than buying another set of handyboard + expansion board? (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi all Has anyone worked on persistent global variables. In the manual it says persiststents can keep their value on reset conditions and multiple downloads. i declared persistant globals in my program and they do keep their value on reset (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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hi all, I had post a message about the exp board days before. Actually, the problem had not been solved yet. I post the following message that was shown when I was trying to load the exp files to the board. I don't know why this happen, since my (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Oops. I just realized I forgot to tell you how to connect the solar panel. Solar panels are almost always installed with a diode to block reverse voltage that would actually suck energy out of your battery when the sun goes down. For a small solar (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Any 12 V solar panel would help to add some juice to the battery, but the board probably can't live on just 40mA. The recommended adapter is 500 mA, which would charge the battery about a dozen times faster. Still, I have some solar cells just (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, Has someone builded a battery charger for the HB, using a solar panel, is a 12 v / 40 mA panel enough for that?, and how to connect it?. Also, has someone tried the OWI robotic arm ? Thank You Jose Luis (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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This calls for a signal conditioning amplifier. Since you're not worried particularly about slew rate (the handyboard won't do much more than 12khz sample rate) you can pretty much use any op-amp you want. Ideally you'd use a single supply one, set (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HandyBoard A/D converter?
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The 68HC11 has references for the range of the A/D converter. In the HB design they are hardwired to 0 and +5. I believe the pin is Vrh at (URL) and is currently wired to +5. --chris prosser From the motorola manual: 2.2.7 A/D Reference and Port E (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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May I suggest you test your system for response to invisible light? You could shine an Infrared LED onto it to see what you read. There are also "UV Cutoff" Filters available at photography shops supplying color darkroom equipment (UV from the bulb (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, In the kit you will find a number of pulleys about 1 inch in diameter. These are narrow enough to fit through the sensor. They have six holes in them and if they are on an axle, will give you 12 pulses per revolution - 2 pulses per hole. One (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Dear Handy Board Masters, I am trying to use the handy board for some A/D conversions. The converter is set up on a 5 volt scale, the converter is an eight bit converter. Over this range I get a resolution of 19.5mV per Step. My application is (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | LUGNET spammed (was: Semiconductor Specific Search Engine)
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Hey, folks, (and Todd Lehman in particular) Did you catch this spam over in lugnet.robotic.handyboard? I hope that this trend doesn't continue. :^( LUGNET is one of the few Internet institutions I use that is nearly 100% content, and spam-free. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard, lugnet.general)
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Hi all I mailed the list a few weeks back about implementing a colour sensor. someone suggested using three photo resistors with red, green and blue filters over it. I have built the sensor with four photo resitors, three with the different filters (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Dear HB, I am trying to convert an anolog voltage from a thermocoupler to a digital value and display it on the LCD. I thought this could be accomplished by changing the high reference voltage V(rh) from the default 5V to 600mV to get the max (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Using ICC11 with the handy board
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John, The 1 KHz system interrupt is set up in the IC pcode, which you are not loading. Furthermore, the bootloader for the Handy Board is loaded into the first 255 bytes of on-chip RAM when you load pcode, and disappears on reset. It can't cause you (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Using ICC11 with the handy board
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Hi John, Using compiled programs with the Handyboard is not difficult, the steps used to download a compiled program are exactly the same as downloading the "pcoder" file in the Handyboard documentation. The compiled program is used instead of the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Using ICC11 with the handy board
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Dear Sir or Madam, Let me preface this email by saying that I am an extreme novice at programming microprocessors so please try not to laugh to hard at my questions. I recently started an electronics project for which I chose to use the handy board (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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