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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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| | Re: Lego RCX rotation sensor w/handyboard
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Hello, With the Handyboard expansion board, you will connect the LEGO rotation sensor (LEGO Angle sensor) easily. Here is the link: (URL) Hui (URL) Message----- From: Andrew McGeachie <geech-lugnet-news@engine5.com> To: handyboard@media.mit.edu (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Lego RCX rotation sensor w/handyboard
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apologies if this is a frequently asked question...i'm a newbie to this list. is it possible to hook up a Lego Mindstorms rotation sensor to the handyboard? and if so, does anybody have good instructions for doing it? thanks. - andrew (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: IR output driver
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Hi! Zetex has a great tech page where all of the specs are listed: www.zetex.com It will have the beta values... Kent | -----Original Message----- | From: jhatton@media.mit.edu [mailto:jhatton@medi...mit.edu]On Behalf Of | John Hatton | Sent: (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Fuzzy Logic
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Does any body know where I could find code, to run fuzzy logic on a HC11? Thanks Daniel (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Remote controlled robots with handy board?
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Hi Jack, You can check with the following site for radio communication for Handyboard: (URL) you want to know more "Handyboard" based robot and applications, you can check: (URL) Regards, Patrick Hui patrick@robotstorehk.com -----Original (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Remote controlled robots with handy board?
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Hi, I was wanting to create a robot that has controlled though a wireless remote controll type of device, is this possiable with the handyboard or an extrenel device (for communications) that feeds the hand board the information? Would the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | gleason research handy board for sell
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I have a Gleanson Research GRHB-PC Handy board for sell it is in very good shape in factory box only used a few times. Email me at diamondw@kennecott.com Wayne Diamond diamondw@kennecott.com (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IR output driver
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Does any one know how much current the ZTX614 NPN Darlington transistor (Q1 - IR output driver) can handle. I am wondering whether I can use this to driver a total of 5 IR leds, either in parallel or series. The indicator led circuitry that goes in (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, I found your site in webcrawler. I am looking for websites who are interested in either getting listed on our website or participation in co-op programs with us. We are kind of in a rush to get things going for the holiday season. If you have a (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Assignment Abbreviation
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Hi all, I am using the free version of IC (2.860 BETA). I have some trouble with the assignment expression abbreviation, i.e. count += 2;. According to the manual, I can do: count is declared as type int. count += 2; count -= 2; count *= 2; count /= (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: LCD Printing
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you can try e.g. printf("%c", 11); to see what ASCII 11 looks like. fred In your message you said: (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | LCD Printing
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I was wondering if it is possible to print non-alphanumeric characters on the display, such as the heart that is used as the heart beat display. Is this just one of the normal ascii characters ? (e.g. heart symbol = 03h), it would be useful if I (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC using Windows 3.11
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There's not much that can be done. IC 3.2 doesn't run on Win 3.1. Your choices are: * upgrade your laptop to W95. * downgrade your use of IC to the freeware version on all of your machines. Fred (...) version (...) it does (...) reason (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC using Windows 3.11
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I can run the freeware version fine, my problem is the programming functionality that has been added to 3.2 that is not in the freeware version (the interface does not matter too much as once the hb is programmed it does not need the pc connection). (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC using Windows 3.11
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sorry about the blank msg, what i meant to say is: doesn't the freeware/DOS vers of IC run nicely under win 3.11? in a DOS shell, of course. maybe some readers can share their experience with this. fred In your message you said: (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC using Windows 3.11
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(24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC using Windows 3.11
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Is there a version of IC that will run under Windows 3.11 ?, The current version (3.2) only runs on Win32 platforms (9x & NT) and the freeware version only runs under DOS. The reason that I ask is that version 3.2 contains alot of functionality the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: play wav files on HB
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What I was actually wondering was whether there was a utility that could convert small wav files (only a couple of seconds or so) into a format playable by the hb, possibly using the existing tone functions using some form of sampling. The intended (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC registration number
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Hi John, (from their web pages (URL) Newton Research Labs, Inc. 4140 Lind Avenue S.W. Renton, WA 98055 Tel: 425.251.9600 Fax: 425.251.8900 mailto:support@newtonlabs.com I've had a similar problem (system I was running lost the HD, big time crash) (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | play wav files on HB
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I've seen mentioned in the last few weeks something about playing wav files on the hb, is this using the standard hardware or is there a utility that can convert small wav files into a format playable by the hb. I have gotten as far as playing the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IC registration number
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Thanks for the suggestion, the problem is that the main machine that it was installed on was my pc at my previous employers (I was intending on using it at lunchtimes) and when I moved jobs the pc would have been reformatted. I thought I had (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Complete memory map on Handy Board
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yes, please see (URL) your message you said: (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Complete memory map on Handy Board
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Is there a complete memory map for the handyboard I can Look at? I'm building up a board and would like to use the expansion port. I am going to interface a VX1, the interface will be different than what has been previously done. AlsoI've been (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Question on Handy Board connected to three other 68hc11
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Hello, I bought an Handy Board and I would like to use it with 3 other 68hc11e2 cards. These four 68hc11 are connected together with the port D (MISO, MOSI, CLK). SS of Handy Board is connected to +5v and Handy Board always is the master. On the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IC registration number
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Could somebody let me know who I should contact for the following problem. I bought IC3.1 a year or so ago (have downloaded 3.2 since then) and I was provided with the relevant registration codes via email. I need to reinstall IC onto my pc but (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | config register.
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I am using hbdl to download to my hb. In the config text box if I set it to OCh the downloader reports an error stating the the config register is ODh. I thought that the program was supposed to set the config register to whatever was in the text (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: More download trouble w/Windows 2000 on notebook
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can you try booting the computer into DOS mode and running IC from there. not that it's a good long term strategy, but sometimes this works when running IC from within Windows doesn't. fred In your message you said: (...) g (...) t (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Gameboy cam, HC11??
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Hi I was wondering... is it possible to hook up the gameboy camera to a MC68HC11? Even for still frames? Any info would be appreciated! Thanks -Mike (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | More download trouble w/Windows 2000 on notebook
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I was overly optimistic when I thought getting the pcode interpreter downloaded via dl was most of the solution. Now I get IC errors. e.g. trying to load a hello world program gives errors like Initializing interrupts Board sync error: looking for (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Download from Notebook on Windows 2000
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Fred, I used dl in full screen mode as you suggested and successfully downloaded the pcode interpreter. I haven't actually tried to load an IC program yet, but at least I'm heading in the right direction. (I forgot your advice about throwing away (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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