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hey everyone! i just got my ssc servo controller and i'm having trouble. I don't know how to connect it to the handyboard or expansion board. this is what i'm assuming, just let me know if i'm wrong, it connects with the modular jack to the PC (can (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: light sensors
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Also, if you don't want your motherbot to have a "light-bulb" on it... You can get an infrared LED (or a few to make it brighter) and use the same concept Barry mentioned. To get the best result in sensitivity it way be wise to match the peak (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Sorry guys - Opppsss
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This is about the wireless thing? I was referring to the www.dvp.com product which is now the www.applied-wireless.com and not the www.connectionslab.com Gush!@ joema (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Can I interface the Handy board to a PC to run there the robot's brain?
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(...) I've tried their product before - the company is once the DVP.com. And it cannot transmit at 9600 baud which they tried to claim using their crystal caps. And the CS is not really that good. I am not quite sure now since it has a new name - (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Can I interface the Handy board to a PC to run there the robot's brain?
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(...) Another source for a RF interface: www.connectionlab.com Dirk (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: light sensors
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Hi, Light sensors are about the easiest of any type to hook to a HandyBoard. You can get inexpensive photo transistors at Radio Shack and put three of them in a configuration where one is pointing straight ahead and the other two are pointing about (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Can I interface the Handy board to a PC to run there the robot's brain?
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First, try this: (URL) that won't do it for you, and you can get I/O control over your PC, you can use the SPI port at J6 for some very fast transfers. There are people who have interfaced RF links to various boards, but the task does not appear (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, has anyone experimented with light sensors? My group is working on a mama and a baby robot this semester and would like to control baby's movement by using sometype of sensors. We are thinking of mounting sonar sensor to the mamabot so that it (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Can I interface the Handy board to a PC to run there the robot's brain?
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Hi, I am new on this, and I am not sure if can use the handy board to get the data from the sensors or to send the motor commands, but to send the data to a PC in order to process them, i.e., to run the program that controls the robot in a pc, in (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | problem on "encoder?"
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Hi.. i have some problem on using the command "encoder", hope you can help me.. I use a servo as motor driver of the wheel, and I connected a encoder to HB analog-in port 6, then i load the file sencdr6.icb for counting, but my problem is how can i (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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What does it mean when both LED motors are on? Is there a problem with the motor driver chips? I'm wondering because it always happens when I use the motor(1,speed) function, however when I use the fd(1) only one light goes on. I'm just curious if (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, Everyone: My "ic" does not works. When I start "ic", it just stay there, doesn't try to communicate with robot. If I type "ic -port /dev/ttyS0", it oomes out something like" it free software,... type about...." Does anyone know what's wrong? (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | testing
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testing! (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: ssc servo controller
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hey everyone! i just got my ssc servo controller and i'm having trouble. I don't know how to connect it to the handyboard or expansion board. this is what i'm assuming, just let me know if i'm wrong, it connects with the modular jack to the PC (can (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Encoder and Sonar
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Use the encoder routines from the HB web site: (URL) these, you can use any of the analog ports (i.e., you don't have to use ports 0 and 1 first). I have the sonar hooked up to the expansion board, too, so I have my encoders running on ports 2 & 3. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi.. I have some problems about using the command encoder and sonar, hope you can help me.. thanks.. In my project, i require one ultrasonic sonar, so i connect a wire from the exp. board to HB digital-in port 0. But when i checked the program of (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I've looked high and low for info on the P5587. - it's like the thing doesn't exists. I even went to Hamamatsu's web sight ... nothing! The only info I've found was a message in this newsgroup. Below is a copy of it. I haven't hooked mine up yet so (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Everyone, Does anyone have a problem using global char arrays? I want to pack as many bits as possible into each char, but when I assign a hex value to any element in the array I never get that value. I always get the same junk no matter what (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Need help with Hamamatsu P5587
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Anyone know how to connect the Hamamatsu P5587 to the Handy Board(with an expansion) Schematic or pins-out would be great. If your sensor output port already taken, is there any other port on the handy board we can use to connect the Hamamatsu (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Need help with Hamamatsu P5587
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Anyone know how to connect the Hamamatsu P5587 to the Handy Board(with an expansion) Schematic or pins-out would be great. If your sensor output port already taken, is there any other port on the handy board we can use to connect the Hamamatsu (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | P.W.M into something usefull....?
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Hi all you to all you guys in the HB world!, Found a old RC system for a air plane. Works fine with the 1 servo it had left, my question is how would one go about useing it with the HB? hooked one of the outputs to a analog port and got the P.W.M. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | new lock_process() function library for IC
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I have written some library code which allows user programs to effectively hog_processor() for a user-specified time interval, instead of the 256 msec allowed by hog_processor(). The new functions are: void lock_process(float seconds) ;locks out (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: servo motors
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Hi, Try adding some delay time between turning the servo on and off. For example, 'sleep(2.0);'. Add the sleep(2.0) as follows: (...) sleep(2.0); /* wait for 2 seconds for servo to move */ (...) sleep(2.0); /* wait */ (...) Probably the reason why (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Converting voltage to resistance
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Voltage and resistance have no relation to each other - they are two different things. The HB analog inputs convert the voltage level applied to them to a digital equivalent, basically an A/D converter. So, you can apply your 0 - 5 volt signal (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: servo motors
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(...) Yes you are right, i just figured out too. i have to give at least 0.3secs for the servo to move to the required position. (...) actually the servo doesn't move when you turn it off. if you don't turn it off some small movements are observed. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: servo motors
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(...) What is it supposed to be doing? When you say _it_ doesn't work, what exactly is not working? I'm not that familiar with the routines but it looks like you're shutting off the servos before they can move. I also believe once you turn off the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Converting voltage to resistance
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This is a dumb electrical question. I am a programmer, and I still struggle with the electrical aspects of this hobby. How do I convert voltage output to resistance. I have an application that turns out 0 to +5 volts. However, as I read the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | servo motors
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hi all i connected a servo to the digital 9 port, downloaded the servo.icb and servo.c files. from the command line i can control the servo. but then i wrote the following very simple code, and it doesnt work. can anyone spot the problem. void (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Exp. board Servo
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(...) Fortunately there is a direct relationship between servo-value and angle. Try different angles (for example 0 / 45 / 90 / 135 / 180 degree) and draw the diagram value vs. angle (for example with MS Excel). You will (hopefully) see a linear (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: HB's mA consume?
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Well, you can _greatly_ increase the efficency of the handyboard if you remove the 7805 regulator and replace it with a PowerTrends switching regulator (Digikey sells these among others). I would suggest you run three wires from the regulator to the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: HB's mA consume?
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Thanks your answer Will, well, seems not easy to give a good use to a solar panel in the HB If I want to connect the a panel to the HB charging circuit, it must be 12V/500mA like the AC adaptor? or with less current (maybe 200 mA) , it can still use (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB's mA consume?
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If your calculations are correct, and your solar panel provides 40 mA, and you get maybe 6 hours of strong, useful sunlight per day, then I figure you'd need eight solar panels and three battery packs, minimum, to keep the HB running all the time, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB's mA consume?
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Hi, Today I have tested the time the HB can stay powered with his battery (just the board, without any other device attached), its work during aprox. 8 hs, so because the batteries I use are 600 mA, I believe that the consume of the board is around (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB memory capacity
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As IC loads each file, it reports how many bytes each one occupies. Just add 'em up. The IC interpreter is said to occupy approximately half of the 32 kB available, so if your code gets up to about 16 kB total, then you need to worry about trying to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Exp. board Servo
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(...) Well, since it seems these values often vary from servo to servo I usually set them by using the knob function and scaling it down so I can visually see the numbers I'm putting into it and the result on the servo; turning it until it chatters (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Exp. board Servo
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Hi.. i have some questions about the exp. board and R/C servo, hope anyone can help me.. thanks.. From the "Expansion board software" homepage, it said that servo0=(value) is used to control the servo, may i ask how can i convert this value to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB memory capacity
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Hi all, A funny thing happened. i tried to download a file. IC gave the message it was downloading, but just when it finishes it gives me an error saying "lost synch with board". then i unloaded some files and redownloaded the file again. this time (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: KIPR Kit
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Joe, As it turned out, the edge of the pulley was right next to and perpendicular to a long beam piece. We just used hot glue to glue it to the beam and held it in place until the glue dried and had no trouble at all. The pulley can't come out of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: KIPR Kit
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(...) These are what I also have been trying to use to break the beam, they seem to be the best choice. My question was more about how you mounted the sensor. I'm curious to know what piece people had glued the sensor to, and to see if they used (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Servo controllers
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(...) If you can burn PIC processors yourself, try my page at (URL) and bonk on the serial servo controller project. I have PIC12C508 code there that allows you to control 4 servos with a single 2400 baud connection. The code is set to allow a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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