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Attatched is a picture od the toy Mars Rover that I am modifying. Right now I have the handyboard driving two lego motors and I ripped apart a mouse to use the encoder. Mice encoders sure work great! And they are much cheaper than commercial (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Linux Works well with the handyboard! and Cool Platform Hack!
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Hi, I got all the bugs out of my handyboard! First I had to bend several leafs on my 68HC11 (Thanks Fred!), Socket was ok, the processor was not. Also, when I did a burn in of my board, I did a complete trickle charge on the battery pack, ran (...) (24 years ago, 2-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Temporary solution for W2000, but not Notebook
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Hi, I am assisting a Robotics course with the venerable HandyBoard, and have been having the same problem with the Toshiba, and ThinkPad laptops. With Toshiba though, there is no infrared as far as I can tell, and I can run and load the inital pcode (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Servo.c
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Hi. I´m using the servo_a7.icb file to drive a servo on my handyboard, but the servo is not moving. it seems that the frequentcy is not the right one (40hz). And I was looking for the servo.c file, because it seem easy to use, but i can´t find it. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Hi all
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Dear Everyone, Nicolle and Jason have split up. The hoovjay@saber.net email account will end today. To email Nicolle use: hoover@math.ucdavis.edu To email Jason use: jtparks@flashcom.net I hope everyone is doing well, Jason (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Temporary solution for W2000, but not Notebook
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This is essentially a status report telling what I've come up with as a partial solution to to running the Handy Board in our new environment. I have not succeeded in getting IC to run under Windows2000 DOS. The labs now have machines with 120 MB (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IR demodulator
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I have mounted the IS1U60 infrared demodulator on to the HB but I have realised that it can only recieve from a particular direction. Is it possible to mount another IS1U60 by connecting the leads to the same locations on the pcb via wires and then (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Is this a bad PLC socket?
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Hi, I built up a handyboard and most of it works great! testmotor passes, testdigitals passes, even the infrared remote detects and trnasmitts fine! I just have one analog port, port 3 that does not work unless I apply a little pressure to the cpu! (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Lego RCX rotation sensor w/handyboard
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(...) The Expansion Board has inputs specifically for Lego sensors. In particular, I've used the rotation sensor and it works fine. You simply take a lego connector, cut the wire and put the HandyBoard connector on. Plug it in and you're ready to (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IR output driver
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it's rated for 1 amp. so you'd have no trouble at all with what you describe below. fred In your message you said: (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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